Quote Originally Posted by Spuuky View Post
Installing Ubuntu is trivial. Just download an ISO and make a boot disk and click through all the options, all of which are extremely self-explanatory to someone with even a cursory knowledge of computers. It's also free, stable, and has a lot of support. I think you will find that it's much easier than you anticipate. It basically looks just like OS X these days once it's running.

Windows 10 is a significant upgrade from Windows 7/8 and obviously from XP/Vista. I personally don't care about Microsoft collecting irrelevant data (I could always just block it if I needed to anyway) and I'm unwilling to give up the ability to play so many of my games, but if you aren't concerned about game compatibility specifically there's really nothing to be lost by switching. And Linux has ever-more game support, although not anywhere near "everything" yet.
Gaming and web-browsing are mostly what I do on my PC, but I REALLY don't like Microsoft these days. Their attempts to get me to like Windows 10 by trying to forcibly install it onto my system and hide adverts for it in their Security Updates (yes, they did that) have soured me to the company a great deal (and I wasn't exactly their biggest fan in the first place).

Gah, this is going to be a tough choice.