There is, of course, the other approach. I was musing t'other day when throwing out ICL's PLAN coding sheets about how much simpler everything is when doing routine jobs. (The last ICL job, as I recall it, could now be done with a very few lines of code in an Excel spreadsheet.)
I'm now at the stage when, having used m/c code for the EE Mercury, various 80xx machines, various BASICS, ALGOL, COBOL, I really, really don't want to learn to speak Linux or Apple - the M$oft learning curve stretches back to Dos 3.1, and I'm happy to sit at the feet of MikeB, SD Mix and various others who are willing to give of their time.
I echo the sentiments of bnt: nearly 2 years of W7 plus Avast! and various other little bits, and only one BSOD - and that was due to faulty hardware.