You missed the biggest advantage to Linux. No updates needed! I have ran in the past for a whole two years without any updates. That's no operating system updates. No security software to be updated and paid for every year. Have you ever considered that your virus protection is the biggest security threat you have? You wouldn't pay your neighbours to refrain from throwing rocks through your windows would you? Security software is a protection racket. There is only one learning curve to deal with. No changes mean nothing to unlearn or habits to change. Linux just works the same way every time. Linux Mint worked so well that I got bored and started looking for other distributions to try out but always came back to Mint.