Same here. Curiosity which changed in time to my work.

I even was using win10 + wsl in company, but after time of adding crapware + forced win11 update (downgrade) I just said “gimme Linux laptop”. Gave up totally, useless for me

On personal hardware - Linux is first choice, omly gaming pc is Windows based.

Place where you have most of your friends…

Used to xmpp, but it died naturally over the time and someday I just stopped my prosody server. Nowadays - a bit of IRC (few friends still are there) and discord (not selfhosted, but from all the alternatives… feels best).