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.
Pay for Windows? When their own business model makes it physically impossible for them to do anything about you cracking it? HWIDgen exists and basically fakes your pc being an OEM machine and it scaleable so once you crack it once, you can just keep using the same key lol.