Comment by Silhouette

It was Microsoft's nerfing of the "Pro" Windows editions that did it for my business. We're small but we still need control of our own systems to operate professionally - just like the bigger organisations whose IT teams would never accept Microsoft forcing things like updates, reboots, and telemetry on their users. Since around Windows 10 it seems like Pro is just Home with a couple of minor concessions but still 99% of the junk we won't tolerate so we're now almost exclusively Linux and haven't bought a new Windows machine in a long time.