For about 10 years I used various flavors of Linux on my workstation because I was sick of how terrible XP was when doing anything that strained the computer in the slightest, and was still disappointed I couldn't use Irix anymore
(for animation/VFX work).
Debian, Slackware, CENTOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, many WMs/DEs - always optimistically searching for a setup that would work for everything I wanted it to without spending months setting it up. And it was good during the brief periods where everything worked. Inevitably though some core software I use would need an update and of course needed newer libraries/dependancies or whatever, which of course when updated broke something else. And so at these points I would either have to make the decision to write off a few days to try and fix it or just reinstall a newer/different distro and hope it would play nice. I used to enjoy these challenges in my 20s - now I can't be bothered and I want to spend my time doing my work.
About a year ago I was at one of these points and was hating having a job where I had to rely on computers in general - Linux was a PITA and the Macs I also used were so buggy when using anything other than Mail or Word. Then I realised that there was one computer which had never crashed/lagged inexplicably/generally freaked out
ever - my lappy running Win8.1.
So I installed 8.1 on my workstation and it's been great! It's definitely a tiny bit slower than the best Linux+Gnome installs I had but it's efficient with memory usage (the main reason I dumped XP), very stable, and everything just works!
I'm not ready to update it to Win10 yet of course but my Surface Pro 3 seems fine running 10 (it should...)
I should mention I'm not anti Linux as it is the most efficient, I still run it on all our file/license servers and the render farm is all Linux, I just can't be bothered with it on a desktop anymore.