I recently installed Ubuntu on my gaming machine. It was a bit of a learning curve, but I am still able to game, and I can play around with software without being treated like a criminal. It's great.
I still use Mac for dev, but only because I don't really feel like messing around with Linux on a work computer.
Not far from my philosophy. If I'm being paid, I'll use whatever I'm getting paid to use. But on my own, I'll choose to learn tools that will be around for a long time, and won't get taken away by some rent-seeking company (i.e. open-source).
Ubuntu is great once you remove the motd advertisements.
Maybe I'm just too used to advertising blatantly in my windows env that I'm not noticing ads on Ubuntu. Which MOTD ads are you talking about?
The ones you remove by
https://canonical.com/legal/motdhttps://support.tools/remove-ubuntu-pro-advertisement-apt-up...