“Instead of Windows 10 or Mac, this ZDNet article suggests Linux Mint. What do you all think? — PING!”
For anyone needing to be productive and not geek out using a computer, Windows or Apple. Either will do the trick nicely.
IBM looked at going Linux for the desktop and found their IT support costs went up from what they were paying for Windows. When they switched to Apple, they went down remarkably. Support man-hours per user (or is that person-hours, in this politically correct millennium?) was dramatically reduced. Annual savings with less than 50% of the work-force converted from Windows to Apple was over $25 million.