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Just for the record: using Windows 10 and being happy with it, currently rendering fractals for a calendar-project (rendering overnight for several nights, print resolution), having had no problem with it at all (yet).

Actually Google has made it clear what their vision of the OS market would be, look up Chromium/Chrome OS (recently canceled since it overlaps with Chrome and Android). In short it would be a 100% web OS (cannot function without internet connection) were as much as possible is done server-side (in the cloud since that's the hip buzzword) and they constantly collect and store user data (non-privileged & prilvliaged). As far as I'm concerned Google should be greatly feared, their violation of privacy is without limits and everyone loves them for it.

I've talked to tons of people (mostly triggered by Win8 Metro theme but also the release of Win10) that are in the same boat as us, and I think MS knows it. I could blather on for ages but I will simply say Win7 was the last "decent" Win OS, and It's clear MS is changing their approach to remain profitable into the future despite high levels of criticism from long time users. I started exclusively using MS OS in the Win3.1/DOS environment days and (unless they do a full steam 180, unlikely) my MS OS days end at Win10. I will keep a Win7/XP dual boot machine, but I will be switching my main machine to OpenSUSE and/or LinuxMINT exclusively in the next couple years.

I think this may be a world of new opportunity for linux and unix distros; but I have a couple coding/networking friends in the tech world who disagree (largely because after win10 they feel there no longer exists any OS that meets their needs/wants).