Well had similar experiences. Let me tell you what happened: tried Ubuntu, Arch, OpenSUSE and Mint in VM - installed Mint for dual boot - started windows less and less - last xmas (!) I had enough and removed the stupid windows partition to make space for my steam games - now I am a very Happy Linux user :D I'm fine with this: Windows at work, Linux at home - besides VisualStudio I miss nothing on Linux - the other way ... well let's say I am at the point where I happily install emacs just to get eshell ^^ IMO if you are a programmer that is not married to Microsoft (you don't develop .net or work in an AD environment) then you should go for Linux - it's just the saner choice.

no matter what: make sure you get the extensions installed - then all should be fine

> the good of the many outweighs the good of the one well the world does not work this way (or neither of us would sit in front of a computer and talk about this) - *remember*: we (as in *the west*) are not *the many* when you see it globally And the context here really matters: it's not for the good of anyone if Apple give in - the *bad* will just go and use some other - more secure - means of communication, while we all would lose even more of our privacy. > “If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” (Philip Zimmermann)