OS: Windows, But Not Willingly
Some days I feel trapped. Up until about 3 years ago, our work situation was such that my department had Linux desktops, where we had the choice of running whatever distribution we wanted to, as long as we were able to do our jobs. No issues, things were great... until corporate IT decided it was time to upgrade our machines. No longer would we have our Linux desktops, instead, they were forcing us onto Thinkpads with Windows. Luckily we have admin rights, but still, losing Linux was a pretty big blow to productivity for quite some time.
It's three years now since they've migrated us, and my current solution involves WSL2. It's the best I can do, and it does give me most of the tooling I need to work. The thing I'm really missing the most though is the desktop, or rather, window manager setup I was running. On my old Linux machine, I had i3 set up and it was a breeze to get things done, and with multiple virtual desktops it was easy. I know Windows 10 has virtual desktops, but I really haven't tried playing around with that yet.
At home I'm also using Windows because my streaming setup hardware either doesn't function at all, or has very hacky solutions to get it running. In my younger years, I used to love tinkering around with things to get them to work, but these days I just want things to work and I don't want to spend hours troubleshooting things. If I weren't streaming, it may not be that big of a deal. One might argue that I should give up streaming since I'm not doing it on a regular basis, and I had thought about that. However, I still plan to make an occasional Youtube video and the hardware I have will be necessary for that, not to mention I do stream when I get the bug to do so.
I had considered MacOS, and honestly I'm still thinking pretty hard about it. My current Windows rig would then just be streaming / video / gaming, and everything else on the Mac. The problem is the cost of entry into the Mac world. Time will tell, but for now, I'll be living here in the land of Windows.