I run Fedora at work that utilizes smart cards and socks proxies, several vpns and private certificates and it works like a charm.

I use Fedora for work. One piece of software I have won't run in wine though, because it does some weird SSL certificate stuff. So, I still need virtual machine manager. but, everything else, including compiling I updated our build tools to work properly in linux.

Fortunately, no smart cards or anything though, and unmanaged system

Laughs in # rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root

pacman -Rsn pacman

windows is far worse in enshittification terms. least mac has a bash shell inherently

Apple has been slow to get into the LLM game and it's not that intrusive at this point, but that could change.

Apple is a lot better than Windows but slowly getting worse. They keep pushing their own services more and more aggressively while the quality of their software drops over time. Not to mention that iOS is so locked down that they don't have to worry about things like pushing Edge because they just don't allow any other browsers.