Windows 95 crashing all the time with its Blue Screen of Death is why I started looking for alternatives. I eventually bought a Dell computer pre loaded with Ubuntu . I actually don’t want the rest of the World moving to Linux. I rather the scumbags of World keep thier efforts at creating viruses focused on Windows.
Living in the shadows has some personal benefits.
XP was the good one.
Too good in fact. It was so stable, folks didn't need to buy new stuff so in came the forced obsolescence.
At the same time Microsoft lost its anti-trust case in the 90s and a likely part of the settlement w/the government was to allow back doors into their systems.