After reading about halfway through this I scrolled to the bottom to look for the punch line but there was none.  This article comes off as the frustrations of a developer who was forced to use Windows and didn&#x27;t like it (Boo hoo).  A lot of the &quot;issues&quot; he had left me scratching my head and a lot of the observations he&#x27;s made seem to be very anecdotal.<p>&gt; As covered previously, Windows is not a good player when it comes to network-based server software.<p>What is the definition of &quot;network--based server software&quot;?  His &quot;as covered previously&quot; article doesn&#x27;t even contain the word network in it, so it&#x27;s really unclear what he&#x27;s complaining about to begin with.<p>&gt; One other really big problem I see with Windows is that traditional Windows devs are typically only good at Windows and get lost very quickly outside of their comfort zones, which is not true for Linux devs.<p>That&#x27;s an anecdotal observation at best.  In my opinion most developers have comfort zones and get lost very quickly outside of them.  The difference between a good developer and a great developer is that the great developer doesn&#x27;t back down from a challenge outside their comfort zone and are willing to learn new things in-depth.<p>I know plenty of good developers who are only good in their language of choice and have no interest in moving outside of that tool-chain.  I&#x27;ve worked with plenty of PHP and Ruby developers who deployed to Linux and they didn&#x27;t know their ass from a hole in the wall regardless of their OS of choice.  I&#x27;ve also worked with a few Linux C&#x2F;C++ developers on some projects and they had a very thin understanding of C#, often coding things from scratch that were built into the language.  Not to mention their love of nested loops.  I&#x27;ve also worked with some amazing OSX developers who had the same level of comfort on Linux that I do and were about as comfortable in Windows as I was on OSX (i.e. better than average).  But none of that matters because it&#x27;s all anecdotal.<p>&gt; I had a Core i7 3770K 3.5GHZ desktop I built with 16 GB of RAM and a Vertex 4 512 GB SSD. It literally maxed out the Windows Experience Index and Windows + VS was still slow.<p>I HAVE a Core i7 Q820 1.73Ghz laptop issued by work with 20 GB of RAM and a Seagate Momentus 320GB HDD with McAfee software based full disk encryption.  It literally has a Windows Experience Index of 5.9 and Windows + VS IS perfectly fine.<p>I&#x27;m really not sure what he&#x27;s done to his system, maybe he forgot to mention that he was running Windows 7 in a VM on Linux and everything down to the disk was virtualized and there was no hardware acceleration.  I see no other reason why his performance would be intolerable.<p>&gt; Now I dev on a MacBook Pro which has less CPU horsepower than my beefy desktop and things are noticebly faster and the UX is infinitely better after a small learning curve.<p>Seriously?  Linux is better than Windows because you use a MacBook Pro and OSX&#x27;s UI is better than Windows?  Is that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re arguing?<p>It&#x27;s at this point that I stopped reading and scrolled to the bottom.