So I'm assuming, after years of using various Distros (personal and work) we still can't 100% use Linux. Ie..VMWARE issues, Citrix issues, etc

I use Linux for everything. I have a VM of Win8, but I hardly ever spin it up any more except to update it.

The only circumstance in which I can envision not being able to use Linux is if one is required/wants to use software that does not have a Linux exquilent, such as, for example, tax preparation software and certain games (at home) or MS Outlook (for work).

Could you expand on the specific issues to which you allude?

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I forgot the company but there was a bootable cd that had most of that pxes I think or something like that.

If you post exactly the issue we might guess better.

I can't. It's about 50% macOS, 25% Linux, 15% FreeBSD, and 10% Solaris.

Would be nice but I am yet to find a business environment that is 100% open source. Would be a dream come true. Of course they exist but not too much in my part of the world

Is there a point to this, aside from a pretty obvious troll/flame post? I use (and HAVE used) Linux 100% for over 20 years now.

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As already mentioned by others, plenty of us are only using Linux; if you post what issues you are facing, maybe we can help.

Why do you assume such a thing?

I use linux for everything, have for years.

I had a win10 machine that I got for free. A Haswell machine. Got it last fall. Every other time I booted it, there was something wrong with it. And I am not making that up. One time the boot process stuck at just before login. I figured out how to boot in safe mode and fix it. Another time, the processor started running at about 80% for a half hour. I looked, one of those windows processes, I don't know what windows was doing, or why. I did not trust the machine. I purposely kept the ethernet cable unplugged, so it would not phone home, or update when it wanted to.

The last straw was when I turned it on after a couple of weeks, and the ethernet interface would not work. And of course the windows "go around in circles" troubleshooter is worthless. Did not do a thing to it. It wasn't an update that broke it. The error was "there is something wrong with the ethernet driver." So I looked online for a couple days when I had a chance, even went to microsoft and downloaded/installed the driver again for it. I don't know if that is a result of booting it several times with the cable unplugged. Could not fix it in safe mode, could not even get a good understanding of what/why. That's why a common windows IT solution to a misbehaving windows machine is to "reinstall".

I finally had enough of it, a machine with no control over it.

Installed arch linux on it, now it works. Thing wasn't of any use to me with win10 on it anyway. What a mess. I thought that I would keep a win10 machine around just in case I needed one for something. But not if it sits there, and does nothing. I have a little old machine with win7 on it. Just in case I need to stick a microsoft proprietary file system into it to fix it.

If one needs to use a windows only software, then I can see having to use a windows machine. But otherwise, yuk. And I don't say that out of some dislike of the microsoft company. A machine just isn't too usable by me with windows on it. I've become spoiled by very usable open source software.

I was actually going to keep that machine as it was, even if I didn't turn it on but once a month. Just to have one, to reference. But if it is going to work that badly, then might as well put something on it that works and allows you to use it.

I have been 100% linux for almost 20 years. Only reason to even have windows available is some of my medical devices need windows to upload logs for review once a month, so I dual boot my laptop and all the rest, including my daily driver, are linux only.

Only in the situation where you are at work and they are stuck on windows or your medical needs require the use of windows is there any consideration to remain on windows. Otherwise, for 99.999999% of your needs "Linux can do that!"