I almost don't come to them because of the childish comments from both sides. (Mac vs. Windows)
I am not saying Windows is great or better than Mac but Windows does what it does okay.
I've tried Ubuntu on an old box and it worked great. But, I bought an HP box just before Christmas and it has W8 and I kind of like it. The box was cheap - under $300 and has a quad core AMD, 8 Gb of memory and a Tb hard drive. Hard to beat that...
I was in Unix long before windows grabbed the lead.. haven’t dabbled in Linux,,yet. Nice to have options.