> Then there are the equally useless "just switch OSes!" arguments There is a reason Windows has almost completely lost the "batch" professional desktop market

> Then there are the equally useless "just switch OSes!" arguments There is a reason Windows has almost completely lost the "batch" professional desktop market. Same reason my old company developed industrial/CAD desktop software ... for Linux ... on Windows laptops (with Enterprise edition, of course) . Microsoft no longer cares about you or your usecase. What are you going to do ? If you enter a cat and mouse game with MS (pirating, registry tricks, whatever), you will lose.