This post is basically to encourage people to check Linux out. What is stopping you from ditching Microsoft?
Edit: I forgot to mention this but if someone is looking for a recommendation for a Linux distribution then I'd personally recommend Manjaro KDE or just any of the popular distributions with KDE Plasma as the Desktop Environment really. Edit 2: For those who might be looking for more stability and don't need to have the most up to date software I'd recommend Kubuntu.
It's mostly games keeping me on MS even though there's been a lot of improvement for gaming on Linux. Another thing is I've just been using MS my whole life and I've adapted to its crap factor. I know every exploit and hack to make things work how I want or kneecap the spyware and every time I try Linux I get a little further each time but eventually I think "Eh, I can already do this and that on Windows, might as well just use that." I've got an old laptop but I've had nothing but trouble trying Linux on that. If it's not the kernel causing freezes and crashes it's the sound being way too quiet at full volume. And no matter what distro or DE it was always way slower than MS.