@pichlo

You obviously havn't seen or heard of RHEL or SLES.

Both are fully supported enterprise grade Linux distros with the full backing and support of many enterprise commercial companies, far more so than most any other distros.

Both of these Linuxes are excellent, however if you want latest greatest then they also have community versions Fedora and OpenSuse that are both well supported, robust and lots of fun.

I have to agree with you though that the Windows 8 experience leaves a very fragmented memory and a bad taste in the mouth.

A combination of Microsoft trying to get its hooks into your identity and a desktop (or phone) clearly aimed at throwing adverts at you, a desktop that is nothing more than a marketing billboard.

Microsoft is no more than an Apple wanna be.

rgds