I hate windows as much as the herd, but OS choice isn't always as clean as "better or worse".

I need to run Windows in some form for various industry specific needs that a VM or emulation simply cannot meet at the moment. I don't like it, but that isn't going to change the state of things.

It's a delight to be able to choose what and where you work with, but it's not the reality a lot of us have to deal with.