Reasons to abandon Windows for Linux: 1. It works 2. Lets you use a huge variety of sensibly licensed, high quality software 3. Hardware works out of the box

Reasons to abandon Windows for Linux: 1. It works 2. Lets you use a huge variety of sensibly licensed, high quality software 3. Hardware works out of the box, unlike my perfectly fine scanner on Windows which doesn't work on anything newer than XP (except Linux, of course) 4. Updates less likely to brick your hardware 5. If something breaks, you'll be able to fix it instead of looking cluelessly at logs that don't tell you anything. 6. You can tweak by hand whatever you want