Microsoft: So proud of ourselves that we named the company after our own genitals
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I'm reaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyy fucking close to telling my fellow co-workers we are all going to Linux. Learning curve be damned. They haven't come out with a good OS since Win 7 (thank Gawd I did VL and SA on that and Server 2008 R2). Their Server Software is fucking ludicrously overpriced and every other monthly update always fucks their shit and some 3rd party software ass over backwards and you gotta wait a month for a god-damned fix. In the meantime have fun listening to all your co-workers bitch shit doesn't work and doing half-assed fixes and reboots.
There is no learning curve for using Ubuntu. Although it is owned by a private organization, it should suffice for beginners to Linux.
Yes, for desktop users, my desktop Linux desktop works more like Windows 7 than does Windows 10. If most office workers came in one morning and sat down to Linux Mint (just an example), set up with familiar icons for their work functions, then they would "have it" by lunch.
Unless you have some particular software wedded to Windows, just do it and find a nice vanilla Linux distro. You can always run Windows in a VM if needed on occasion. You could also save yourself an entire generation of laptop upgrades because a lightweight desktop like xfce (I use Mint xfce to write this) will run so much faster.
As for servers... walk right off of the Windows plantation.
Its the co-workers, lots of veteran dinos who'd rather cut their dicks off than learn anything including something as simple as pressing play to launch a vm. And ya, I've got some apps written up that cross excel SQL and a myriad of other subsystem shit to keep tabs on security. Most of that is situational and easily xferrable thanks to writing it in C++.