RE: Microsoft continues to be the school yard bully
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Except for some games (which I don't play terribly often these days), I've found I can use Linux for everything quite easily and it's a thousand times better in a variety of other ways. No forced updates. No forced reboots when you update. Much faster installs and updates than Windows. Doesn't thrash your hard drive for days at a time for no discernible reason. None of the privacy concerns. Far more customizeable. Works on a wider variety of hardware with rarely any trouble. Etc.
Linux is actually easier and faster to install and use than Windows 10. By far.
OSX is quite nice but being limited to Apple hardware makes it a non-starter for me for the reasons you mention. And even OSX has gone more or less slowly but steadily downhill since Snow Leopard or so. At least it has become far more bloated with questionable gains in usability. And honestly, I don't know that support for Intel Macs will continue (at least by Apple ) even 5 years. PowerPC support didn't last that long. The first Intel Mac was released ~August 2006. Snow Leaopard, released in 2009 was Intel only and Rosetta was dropped with Mountain Lion in 2010.
I guess if you really want to use software that is only available on Windows than you are stuck. In my case, I'm generally fine with the open source alternatives.
I find most of the open source solutions look like they were designed in 1970 and have the feature set to match. There are some exceptions, but I still feel Linux isn't quite there yet. That being said, I really want a Linux core OS, so I can use sh and terminal. It's a million times better than Windows and I love Linux as a server.