One of these delivered the customer requirement: an egg. The other is still working on an egg incubation framework.

I work with Qt and that framework has preferences for avoiding a lot of modern C++. I generally agree that it makes better code.

Also, I started with C++ in like 1992 and some part of me still feels like templates are newfangled nonsense.

You’re not wrong. This is an argument for sticking with Windows. It will suck. But, you know exactly how much it will suck and in what ways. Switching to Linux will suck in new and expected ways.

Choosing a distro based on what it says it does is not on you. Recommending it to your wife without even having tried it is. When I put Ubuntu on my wife’s computer, I know what to expect because I’ve installed on just abuse every pc I’ve ever used in the past 10 years.

Any “customers” landed are going to be friends and family, if not just outright fakes invented by leo.

There is a nation that formerly had nukes and gave them up in exchange for security assurances from the United States which hasn’t been honored.