Comment by epistasis

"Just use Windows" seems to be more problematic than "just use Linux" here. Though there is hope that WINE will reach enough feature parity for many applications, accessing external hardware is the hardest thing to emulate.

Building products on top of Windows seems to limit the lifetime of the product to whatever support Microsoft seem to be willing to provide.

The best time to migrate off Windows was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.