"I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well"

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Most Linux users probably perceive what this guy calls the "desktop" as a handy graphical application that helps with a few niche tasks, not as the thing that defines the whole OS. In other words, I don't care about superficial GUI differences between Ubuntu and Mint as long as Grep, Apache, GCC, Emacs, etc. work the same.

And as much as I hate Microsoft, this is kind of a "horses for courses" thing. If I need to crop an image on an Apple (*nix machine) I might run MSPaint in Parallels for that. I've been using it forever.

File Explorer is also vastly superior to Finder, and slightly better than whatever the Ubuntu analog is.

If I need to do complicated source control stuff on a Windows machine, I'll likely end up using MinGW or Cygwin.