“Linux may be the last windows update you’ll ever need, but you’ll spend day after day, hour after hour updating, patching, and reconfiguring linux itself.”
Absolute rubbish. I have used Ubuntu and Mint on multiple PCs for the last five years. I spent FAR less time administering those OS’s than I ever did with Windows. Whatever you are doing with Linux must be way off the beaten path. If all a person needs is the basics, such web browser, office suite, photo manager, then Linux fills that need with minimal fuss.
Which is why Linux has taken off as a major OS even after Dell, IBM, and others have offered Linux?? Of course not. Linux is OK, but it is terribly unsupported and too complex to use for the average computer user.
I don’t manage my Windows 7 machines at all, and rarely the servers. They hum along just fine.