Ubiquity gives you the feeling of being a linux nerd and knowing all the terminal commands while in firefox. It’s very intuitive, try it out. I am temporarily considered installing linux again due to seeing Pedro Martins’ computer and realising how cool linux can be in terms of the availability of functions etc., and how well it caters for people doing degrees such as mine.
Of course, the simple fact is that no-one chooses operating systems/computers primarily because they want to have better equipment ‘for their degree’, they just think something is cool and go with that. It FreeBSD was the best tool to study Mechanical Engineering, it would still be the case that no-one would use it.
Also, I have some proprietary software now, and moving over to Linux seems like a waste of all that. Dual boot just wastes time (not because of slow boot times, but because you always end up with a ‘work’ OS and a ‘play’ OS). You know when you’re wasting your time.

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