How ironic that much of Microsoft and all MacOS depends on Linux/Unix.

I mean ironic for those companies. Irony is not directed at OP.

linux really is amazing at this point and I think it can take over the desktop once people realize. There are distros that are install and go without much of a learning curve at all and wine allows for running of windows programs.

PREACH!!

There must be foss alternatives to every proprietary software. Big thanks to GNU and Linus Torvalds that joined their forces and created GNU/Linux!