If I was still stuck using an OS X box, I would definitely switch. If I was using Linux, I wouldn't. I've been forced into developing using Windows for the last few years, and for my use case (SSH to remote server to develop there), it's not that bad. There are some annoyances, but from a usage perspective, Windows 10 is actually really nice. Getting native terminal and SSH[1] support actually handles a bug chunk of my annoyances.
> - What about lack of all the Linux/OS X GUI software?
What about the lack of windows software on those platforms? It goes both ways.
> - What about lack of all the UNIX OS features?
Which features? What about the Windows OS features you do't get on a UNIX OS? Again, it goes both ways.
> - What about all those billions and billions of Windows malware, viruses, adware etc.
There are plenty of windows Viruses and malware, but I will say the most problematic security problems I've had have all been on Linux boxes. I would still count Windows as more problematic overall due to the quantity, but I believe the focus on security from Microsoft in the recent years has paid off, and it's nowhere bad as it used to be. Also, to some degree, the prevalence of malware and viruses are because of the popularity, and the popularity comes with it's own advantages (more supported software). It's a trade-off using a platform where some software you like may not be available (e.g. games).
> - What about the fact that OS X and Linux have always been at least decent from developers point of view but Windows has always had problems and then things like Vista and Win8 happen.
Am I supposed to know what this means? People have been using Windows as a development platform for a long time. Those that want to use Visual Studio still do. Windows Vista was crap, but I didn't find Windows 8 bad at all. Around Windows 7 is when it started actually being viable for me to run, and I think it's gotten consistently better over time. The biggest problem I know of that people had with Windows 8 is the start menu change, which to be honest is a really small thing, people just didn't like it and it was front and center.
- What about the advertisements served to you in the login screen?
I haven't seen any.
> - What about all the future shit MS will throw at you?
I'm not sure how this puts Windows in any different light than OS X.
> - Other stuff can't remember now
Seriously?
> - What about all the spying and restrictions that Microsoft has integrated into the Windows? (e.g. cannot block Microsoft spy server in the hosts-file, forced updates etc.)
This is valid, and would be my number one reason for not running Windows at this point if other considerations didn't outweigh it for me.
1: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH