We both feel it. You want to escape. I want to escape. Microsoft's usurpations have grown too many and too frequent: useless AI in every wazoo, constant upselling on Office 365, the feeling of a gradually tightening noose as more and more apps try to corral you into this or that walled garden—the Microsoft Store, the Xbox App, etcetera. That's to say nothing of all those other reasons you might be keen to ditch Redmond these days.
It's time to leave Windows behind, you resolve. Then comes the irrepressible second thought: where will you go?
