Re: The seem to be going in an unsavory direction...
"And reduce the functionality of your PC as soon as you go to Linux....."
If you value your games, and want to be involved in all the latest trends and fashions with ease, or have proprietary software needs that really can't be done using any other OS, perhaps.
Linux however has functionality Windows doesn't. Yes, it often requires thought, just from the conscious decision to try it over the OS you got when you bought the machine.
I switched in 1999, when there were significant functionality gaps between then Windows 98/ME and Linux. The only real gap turned out to be not that things were not achievable, but that they took a little more effort to achieve, like DVD playback. I remember having to compile Xine from source and spent ages optimising to get a tolerable experience.
Fast forward 15 years, Linux has closed the gap, and moved into functionality you can't get with Windows even if you pay for the Professional version.
I've been curious about Windows10, I like shiny new OS's and have been kinda tempted to try it, almost every news item since it's launch has damped that. I might move onto BSD or something even more obscure one day, but i doubt I'd go back to Windows, given a preference.