I hate articles like this, so let's go through it.
1: Fair, but it undermines how much you can tune Windows and MacOS, they are not nearly as set in stone as people think.
2: Completely true and based.
3: There is a Linux way of doing things, and there are many things that follow from that, like not being able to do advanced admin task without a command line, unlike on Windows. Lock-in also refers more to stuff like hardware lock in for MacOS not just the OS not having an option to change something.
4: Kinda fair, if you use the right distro with the right settings, but in my experience you still have to reboot semi-often.
5: I don't get this one, Wine is on MacOS and Windows has WSL(g), so I don't see how you are ahead on Linux at all.
6: This is kinda dumb kinda not dumb, Ignores the AppStore, WinStore, winget and other tools common on these OSs.
7: Ok, I'm good on this. People have some pretty sick Wallpaper engine and raindrop setups on Windows as well.
8: Nah, I don't know what you are talking about there mate. based on my last few install sessions for laptops there are plenty of stuff that is glitchy as all hell.
5: I don't get this one, Wine is on MacOS and Windows has WSL(g), so I don't see how you are ahead on Linux at all.
I have no experience with WSL whatsoever so can't speak to that but I thought I heard something about that it was more similar to a VM in architecture. Any truth to that?
I know I have heard of several Windows games that had have seen better performance under Wine/Proton than they had under Windows itself... but OTOH I can't seem to recall a single occurrence of this where they dove into what optimization tweaks had been made on each side, so at best we could say with "stock" settings for both.
Regardless, my biggest frustration with #5 is that it seems to present Wine as some magical flip-switch and I could see newbies getting the wrong impression. IMO, it wouldn't have taken a much larger word count to convey that Wine sometimes can make Windows software work on Linux or that there are some exceptions, most notably DRM.
Indeed. My university used to have a lot of issued dues to old automation software that needed windows xp, so they could never upgrade the computers in the lab.
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