The above is one of the primary reasons I'd just prefer to remain in the Mac ecosystem, at least for the things I do work on. It's just so much easier to reply via iMessage on a Macbook than having to grab my phone/iPad when using a PC based computer.

Linux running VM Windows is probably a good option, if you have some legacy software that *only* runs on the Windows environment, which has been virtually the case my entire life. I'm just hoping I can just get rid of them.