No more excuses, it's time to switch to Linux

It's 2026 and friction parity now approaches 1.All things considered, what does that mean? Well, I came up with this term a little while ago after talking about this very concept for years. Friction parity is the idea that no OS is perfect, just familiar.Mac fans, born-and-raised Windows Native, a Microsoft Refugee, or if you're baptized in the cult of GNU-slash-Linux... it doesn't matter! Each system has their own, unique friction.Now, friction is the arbitrary barriers that your OS erects — whether intentional or not — between you and the tasks you're trying to complete.Of course, these can be natural barriers like app incompatibility or platform bloat, or unnatural ones like spyware, vendor lock-in, etc. Each of those constitute some level of friction. Importantly, friction exists whether or not you as a user are conscious of the issues.To boil it down, imagine friction parity as a number between 0 and 1. If we compare Windows and mac OS, the friction parity is (an unscientific,…