Quote Originally Posted by STMahlberg View Post
I became a huge MS fan after my failed courting with OS/2 Warp. Over the past 20 years, I've become slowly disenchanted with MS considering that I've had to drop $200 every few years for a new OS; this past year, I was ticked off that I had to pay $10 a month for MS Office. I just recently dumped my Office subscription and went with Apache OpenOffice which, so far, works well for my needs.

Now, I'm considering going to Linux. Considering MS is going to be charging Enterprise users a monthly fee, it's only a matter of time before they start charging a monthly fee for home use.

Frankly, I'm not happy about either option.
Add to that their new horrendous update policy and their "collusion" with Intel and AMD that will not allow the next version of their chips to run on 7 or 8 it's middle finger time AFAIC. I switched after they tried their forced update of my 7 machines to 10. IMHO 10 is nothing but glorified spyware disguised as an OS and I will not use it under any circumstances.
Linux does have a learning curve because it was designed as a server and not a desktop OS. Can't be beat for dedicated DC machines. Many apps run faster, especially the ones that use vina, like WCG Ebola and Zika. 30-40% faster for those 2.