mwdiers wrote:To add to this: Linux software is not intrinsically faster than Windows software. It just doesn't work that way.
Yes it does, and yes it is faster than windows. Noticably so (ie, user's can "feel" the difference, you don't even need to run specific tests to count microseconds). A big difference is how windows kernel and userspace libraries have bloat beyond hope. It's a wretched OS.
You can run a modern (released 2019) XFCE (desktop environment) and then firefox/libreoffice on an old computer comfortably, whereas trying to run windows on same hardware will just choke.
And I disagree with the previous "expert" saying mac and linux are quite compatible. They're not, even though osx has used a unix kernel. How they handle audio, video etc, the userspace is completely different.