I keep threatening to turn this house Linux. And my business has been damaged enough that it is basically nonexistent... Maybe I will go where you are going...
I set up an older laptop on linux mint 6 months ago, as a dual boot, and it is becoming my go-to machine except when I need to work on an MS Word document for work, in which case I use my new Win10 machine, or when I want to use CorelDRAW. I haven't booted into the Win installation on the dual boot machine since I set it up.
Other than accessing MS Word documents, it's my view that there are linux distributions out now that (a) are ready for prime-time use by people who are not superusers, and (b) are fully supported by the group that put it together, so frequent updating takes place.
To be quite honest, one of the things that just finally turned me off to Windows was sitting there waiting for half an hour while it updated itself and installed the updates. The linux machine, by contrast, which is a slower machine with an hdd instead of an sdd, and an old pentium processor, updates itself in minutes - even when it makes updates to crucial kernel software.
I would definitely recommend people give linux a try, at least on an old machine to see how they like it.