I've done just that by refusing to purchase windows machines.
Then why rag on me about it all the time?
I don't "rag" on you about the OS, I "rag" on you about buying garbage, which you choose to continue to do so, just in this case it's severely overpriced for what it is.
You can run OSX on a lot of machines if for some reason if you enjoy using a limited OS, personally I like freedom.
Oh and IOS is even worse, arguably.
Sounds like a windows 10 story
Fortunately (for the most part) there's almost always a way to get something working in a new edition of Windows, and one of the benefits of 10 is that it is supposedly the last Windows we'll ever need. That being said, it's not always pretty or easy.