content: For the record - what are my alternatives, to not using Windows 10? Every day I read about some new, very bad feature of Windows 10 that make me even more convinced to never use it. I am also not inclined to have to put in a lot of work, just to secure it so it's not torrenting updates to other users via my bandwidth, or doing some other nonsense. But if I don't want to use Windows 10, honestly what are my options? ...? and what else?  I realize Linux has a lot of freeware, but what about professional software? I've used PCs pretty well exclusively for a very long time, but does Macintosh have releases for most professional applications? or not? Can I run these programs with Linux, without having some kind of Windows 10 dual boot partition?