Unless you need software that only runs on Mac / Windows you get a more efficient, faster OS, not stricken with bloatware. Mainstream distros running on compati

Unless you need software that only runs on Mac / Windows you get a more efficient, faster OS, not stricken with bloatware. Mainstream distros running on compatible machines tend to 'just work', so the myth of having to be a hacker to use Linux just isn't true now. Open source is also an amazing beautiful thing and it's nice to support that as much as possible. It's a revelation to most people that they don't have to be under the control of Apple and Microsoft.