It is GNU/Linux, also happy to know his sweet talk with VMware Head of (stealing) Open Source. Gold Linus foundation member status makes friendship and magic.
Guy got down-voted for providing an excellent free alternative and mentioned the fact that it linker / libraries indeed does not add crap to your code.
Btw Microsoft representative itself called it telemetry, confirm they added it without any warning, cloud it all in high grade bullshitspeak, while order for removing it in hurry, or just rename/disguise functions "to remove any suspicions" as they do with spying (sorry, complete anonymous telemetry that helps to improve the product) services in Windows 10?
His only whines are about hardware that is too thin/light and does not have legacy ports and OS that won't work on some junk and don't let you publish hacks in some rarely visited moderated store (just like windows, or linux)
And instead of ordering dirty cheap hackintosh with up to 4 CPU Xeons with all memory he can get and compatible wifi, that will be no thin and no light and he can run familiar terminal window to remote build his diamond code while listening to sound of coolers,
He starting to search OS with better GUI than OSX (Elementary it is) and dreaming about hardware you can run FreeBSD (like PS/2 mouse and glorious VESA 2.0 12801024?)
I expect next article will be a tour to the wonderful world of 15" 1366768 Celeron laptops that let you upgrade memory (up to 8Gb!), spacious replaceable 4200 hard drive and have USB 2.0 ports and VGA in addition to HDMI 1.4.
People will know in detail how good terminal window run there on FreeBSD with Elementary OS theme (without 2D acceleration of course).