Mayayana wrote:

Which is not to say I'm against Linux. I just hate to
see people spend money needlessly. And Linux is not
"free" if it takes new hardware and/or lots of time to
set it up. There's also a serious lack of software, despite
what some Linux fans will say. (GIMP is still not a very
good image editor, after 15+ years in development. WINE
is still not a solution, after 15+ years in development
and a ridiculous 10-day update cycle.)

It doesn't require new hardware and the setup takes a couple of hours, for
most of which you can go off and groom the cat or something. Yes, there are
some specialized applications that are only available on Windows but how
many casual users have them installed? Browse the web, do email,
LibreOffice, and so forth and Linux has it covered. If you absolutely,
positively have to have Quicken and will accept no others, stay with
Windows.