XP was when they jumped the shark, moved away and to Linux then. It is waaaay too late to give a shit what Microsoft does.

I work on a day to day basis with Microsoft products and services, including cloud environments, SQL databases, Azure lakes, etc.

I do it ALL from Linux, and if I have to I will remote into windows machines. I do it because I don’t have time for Windows nonsense. I need my machine to work, so I can work and get paid. Linux is easy to set up and has very few surprises. It just works.