We have linux on our clusters. It is the de facto standard for scientific computing, and it is the best choice for kubernetes. So we have both linux as host OS and only linux containers on our servers.

Everyone uses Linux nowadays. Even Microsoft makes more money on Linux than windows on azure. No one wouldn’t even think about using windows for the job I do, not even Microsoft.

That’s why they created wsl2, to provide unix for enterprise IT. The real struggle is that wsl2 is suboptimal. A real Linux desktop, or even a mac would be much better. Problem is that enterprise IT doesn’t want to manage them, because accenture said so… I guess. Bigger the enterprise, less willing to support unix laptops they are.

If your diagnoses of professional unix users in the spectrum was right, you’d have to put most of scientific computing, hpc, ML and AI commuties in the spectrum.

It is a bit stretched, I’d say.

I don’t claim to be smarter than anyone, I started the thread pointing out that “windows just works” (as OP claimed) is not always true. For my work, it doesn’t work and it is painful