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I'll be the black sheep and say I actually quite like using windows at work. Not really enjoyment per say, but the software suites and accessibility is different in the business world, which is primarily built around Microsoft. Not that you can't do most of it with Linux and that Linux would do some things better, but I don't really have an issue with most of it.
Would I choose it for my home use? Definitely not. But I'd think that fitting a Linux cog in a Microsoft machine would create more negatives than positives. This is all subjective of course, and depending on you job, company, industry this could wildly not apply.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Microsoft. But their ecosystem isn't all bad.