I use Linux

As the title says, I am a Linux user.

This is an interesting statement, because I use Windows a lot. I use Windows more than I use Linux. I have purchased several licences to install and use Windows over the years, and I have Linux and Windows installed in a dual-boot setup on my computer. I am very familiar with Windows, and I have been using Windows since Windows 3.1. I used MS-DOS before that. So I have been using Microsoft products for a long time. It is not out of a lack of familiarity. Nor is it that I don't have them available to me. It is not a matter of being too cheap for it.

I simply choose to use Linux. I have used Linux on and off since about 2004, and used it consistently since about 2009, usually side by side with Windows.

I will certainly admit that Windows has improved over the years. Windows ME was a disaster, and so was Vista. However, XP and Windows 7 each had significant strengths. However, Linux has greater strengths. There are those who would say that Windows is better, simply because it makes more money than Linux, and has more widespread support, but that is really a nonsense argument, and is more a result of monopolistic practices.

Linux is naturally a better product. This is because Linux developers are free to choose their own direction. They are not required to develop in a particular way. It can be designed however you want, giving to the rise of free choice, choice for both users and developers. Also, because the only requirement is functionality, there are no corporate policies delaying things. There is flexibility to move quickly, and implement the tools that users want.

That is why, for example, the KDE interface is superior in functionality to Aero, the Windows desktop environment of Windows 7. An example of this is Aero Snap versus KDE hotspots. Both are effectively the same concept, you move a window, it tiles in particular ways. With KDE, it's fully customizable, so you can turn on and off hotspots, whereas Aero is just the way Microsoft designed. Hotspots also give you an extra five hotspots, giving you five extra choices. By default, 7 of the 8 hotspots are enabled, giving you maximize, tile top left, left half of the screen, tile bottom left, tile bottom right, right half of the screen, or tile top right. Aero has 3 of these, either left half, right half, or maximized.

This is the functional difference. In Linux and the related environment, developers are free to follow functionality to its conclusion, while in Windows, the decisions are made at the top, with no alternative available. In Linux, whatever you want, it's probably available. So I use Linux.