Everybody does what they have to do. Don't feel that you need to apologize for
your decisions. Implicit in your posting is the desire to move toward FOSS and
away from proprietary solutions. That will have to do until such time as FOSS
catches up in the areas you mentioned. Unfortunately none of the "advantages"
that M$ enjoys is due to superiority of the OS, but rather due to the cozy
relationship they enjoy with OEMs. This is changing quickly.

Some of us in the open source world have made decisions based on equipment that
works instead of trying to make available equipment perform in ways that it was
not designed to do. We need to remember that there is a transition period where
users come from all backgrounds and not everyone can afford to buy new
equipment, to say nothing about environmental concerns. Make the most of what
you have and don't look back!