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My biggest issue with Windows is the lack of control I have of the actual hardware I own. I don't own my work computer to begin with nor am I entitled to have full control over it so it doesn't matter.
I do use WSL, but mainly because I'm more familiar with Bash than Powershell and don't have to constantly figure out how Powershell does things I already know how to do.
It's the same reason I have no problem using my company's OneDrive for work files when I go out of my way to avoid putting any of my personal data on the cloud. It's their data and they don't care so I don't care either.
It's also nice because I can set up a Linux-only file server at home with things like SSHFS and the Windows computer can't even see it since it has no SSH access doesn't even support the network share protocol. If I had an SMB share it would show up on my work computer because it autodetects it.