Well ... Linux is acquired taste. But I can think of few points - privacy and security - with windows 8, windows store and ms kindly suggesting to link your des

Well ... Linux is acquired taste. But I can think of few points - privacy and security - with windows 8, windows store and ms kindly suggesting to link your desktop and ms accounts (and skype and facebook) windows is becoming somewhat troublesome and moving to a walled garden system. And also a lot of stuff on linux finally works. And open source toolchains are much more prevalent nowadays and they thrive on Linux. So if your job is not chained to a ms stack and you don't mind getting your hands dirty from time to time and can suffer trough some problems with gaming, there are few arguments against switching.