Distributions giving a solid choice regarding update cycles
Yes
No (update = trouble, far too often)
Robust
Yes
Debatable
Free ($$$)
Yes
No
Free and open-source
Yes
No
Lightweight (I have a shitty laptop)
Yes
No
Same environment on a server
Yes
No (unless you use Windows Server, but... seriously?)
Alternative Window Manager/Desktop Environment
Yes
No
That's not to say "Linux > Windows", but all those features are things that I need to work efficiently, and Windows just does not provide those things (or not as I would want them).
And to be fair, most of those are UNIX features, not Linux. I could have most of those things with a BSD distribution or OSX... but I'm neither crazy nor rich ;)
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Because it's not Windows.
I mean, literally:
That's not to say "Linux > Windows", but all those features are things that I need to work efficiently, and Windows just does not provide those things (or not as I would want them).
And to be fair, most of those are UNIX features, not Linux. I could have most of those things with a BSD distribution or OSX... but I'm neither crazy nor rich ;)