Having been mildly annoyed with ms being in control for twenty plus years, but affraid to make the jump to linux due to my high dependancy on the systems I had in place, I finally had the opportunity, and took it. I now see that the dependancies I perceived were mostly engineered to be such. Now, a couple months later, I can do everything I used to, but faster, and with a level of freedom that was unimaginable to me before.