TL; DR - i like linux.
Long ago, I worked with bleary-eyed men who would stay up until 2 a.m. many nights getting their PCs to work right.
.bat files. .irq settings. A new disc drive was a multi-night event. But boy were they proud of themselves when it worked.
After MSDOS, I would snicker at musicians trying to milk down a Roland MIDI card (431?) - the only one available for PC - trying to get it to work with their behemoth desktop machine.
I would snicker because of my little lunchbox 512 Macintosh. Except I made music and lots of it because with a single cable to a MIDI interface, I could control dozens of synths (though I had started with only two).
No fuss, no muss.
After some years on Mac up to OS9, no one came remotely close. Good times. But Mac, as Apple does, abandoned their user base for something they thought was cooler. Back then it was serial ports; today it's ports at all. I still nurse a G4, but i'm done with Mac though i play live with an iPad.
Linux became popular, I'm absolutely certain, because all those masochists missed those late nights of file-fishing looking for just that one character that made the whole thing work. It does seem to draw out that type, and good for us all that it does.
But like Windows, oddly, the later distributions of Linux have ironed-out countless quirks and problems that once existed. It's easy to just install it and run the apps you want.
So a transition is pretty simple and easy. It really is. And the freedom is priceless. Asking your computer what it is you want it to *do* is the question. With Linux, you can do most things and everything most people use a computer for.
And you can do it well. Not every app in the world, but it's always growing. They've even developed WINE which is a Windows replacement (it's not an emulator!) for running Windows programs.
Sure, a guy can put on the Geek hat and dig deep and some guys love that. ho-hum. Maybe later. You just don't have to. Not at all.
Full disclosure: Despite 2 machines installed, I'm not making music on Linux yet. My archive (22Tb) is managed from my Linux box and my Linux Laptop will soon replace this one. Reaper on a music box is my next step. Lovely program that will probably supplant all my old OS9 work over time. I may try to get Cubase or a similar title to run inside of WINE but maybe not dick with it, either.
I don't have a "pro studio" to run, anymore. Those days are over. I get called into other people's studios. So just for me, i like the feeling of just oozing away from MS and being part of a really smart community of computer folks.
As cheap as computers are, these days, I'd highly recommend anyone taking a $10 garage-sale computer and installing Linux just for the experience. Don't believe the rumors and reputations of 5 or 10 year old Linux tales. It'll breathe new life into an old computer and, if you're like me, might end up being your new favorite approach to computing.