>I'm forced to use Microsoft products and they're actively hostile to Linux

How so? Powershell has openSSH built in now, and WSL2 basically works minus some annoying behavior and caveats. I have a Windows 11 laptop and I use it like you are saying as an ssh machine and web browser without much issue.

▲ godelski an hour ago | parent | next [-]

  > WSL2 basically works minus some annoying behavior and caveats.

It is a lot of annoying things. Everything is just so clunky and I don't think it is surprising given that it is a subsystem. At least in the mac I can still access the computer I'm typing on through the terminal. I mean yeah, I can do that with Winblows but it is non-native and clunky. I mean ever try to open a folder with a few hundred images in it? (outside the terminal) I didn't even know this was an issue that needed to be solved. For comparison, I can open a folder in the GUI of my linux machine that has 50k images (yay datasets) and in <1s I can load the previews. In my terminal, it is almost instant (yes, I can see the images in my terminal, and yes, it is this type of stuff that is a lot clunkier on Windows).

And on top of that, as frustrating as OSX is (even as terrible as OSX26 is) Winblows is worse. OSX feels disconnected, but Winblows feels hostile.

	▲	seniorThrowaway an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ok, I still don't see how that's "hostile to linux" and not just windows being crappy, which it is.
	▲	diacritical an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What setup do you use for seeing image previews (or the images themselves?) on a terminal in Linux?

▲ dtj1123 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I think they mean that Office products and the like aren't available on a Linux OS