I am seriously looking at various Linux flavors. The drive to a cloud-based, service (at a cost) O/S where the security of my data is at the hands of others is a serious issue for me.
Linux Mint (Cinnamon desktop) and don’t look back.
install virtualbox- install linux mint cinnamon edition, and give it a test run- you’ll be surprised how well it works- once it’s running- it’s every bit as capable as windows for online Internet stuff- the only place it falls short really is not being able to run windows programs well- like photoshop- windows games etc- I solve this issue by dual booting- linus is my main os for ALL online activity- while my windows 7 os is strictly for off-line work like playing windows only games and running photoshop to work on my photos-
linux does have ‘the equivalent’ of things like office, excell and such if you use those programs a lot- but they aren’t as good- i don’t use use those programs though- so no problem for me- linux also has their version of photoshop- but I don’t like it- it’s usable enough- but photoshop is still king-