Re: Replacing Linux with Windows, based on *cost*?
No way would I swap Office 2013 for Open Office, even though the latter is free, and does some things better than equivalent Office apps. It's just so damn drab!
I'd rather have drab and FUNCTIONAL rather than glitzy and unusable any day. And as for those abominations and atrocities upon the eyeballs known as Material Design/Metro/etc. if I were forced into those as my only way to use a computer, I'd smash my PCs and move into Ted Kaczynski's old cabin.