Those are all more important to me as well. But I am so privileged that I get to choose jobs with tooling that aligns philosophically with me.

Typed programming, colleagues who really care about precise domain modelling, a high degree of automation, pervasively embedded in both the development environment and the production environment, both being Unices.

A part of that includes picking a non-laggy operating system that doesn’t feed me ads and NASDAQ prices in my toolbar, dark patterns to coerce me into using their inferior alternatives, and a feeling that I’m a guest in my own system.

As a consequence, I am happier and more productive.

I realise many may feel exactly like this with a Microsoft stack. The subjectivity here is what makes it a preference.