Bad experiences from the past are valid reasons to be apprehensive.

Could have painted it as a punishment for him for he changed his ways.

You asked a weird, nonsensical question and got a weird answer. Nothing to see here.

You put sysadmins below developers.

Why hate on the sysadmin?

You might want to consider used hardware. Should be ca. 50 Bucks+ drives.

Used drives are quite cheap, too. Just use some redundant setup.

That wink was somewhat intended ;) The graphs are the intended primary meaning, but Linux usability has actually been complicated in the past.

I.e. I was unable to get a crappy 300$ Laptop running with Linux as a student (ca. 2016) to be used as a youtube/Netflix machine. But that is way in the past. It worked barely when using Windows and I had the hope to prolong its life with Linux. There were some complicated graphic driver issues.

Windows and even Mac are clearly superior. As shown in the graph eventhough Linux is getting better it never even got close.

Powershell is the superior choice. But if you can’t even have bash you probably won’t have access.

Issue here is that this is very hard to Do. Gotta get paid for that level if software.