This quote doesn't inspire so much confidence:

“The thing we were terrified about when switching over to PC’s, was learning Windows, but it wasn’t as bad as we thought, especially because we spend the majority of our time in Adobe® Premier Pro and the interface is exactly the same.”

You're right but there's also truth to what you quoted. I switched to Windows 10 earlier this year and before doing so I had concerns about privacy issues, malware, and the half-baked UI. The following three solutions somewhat addressed the privacy and malware concerns:

* https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

* https://www.malwarebytes.com/antimalware/

* https://www.glasswire.com/

I use Wox [1] as an Alfred replacement so most of my interactions with applications is via that. Other than that most of my time is spent in tiled browser windows, editors or IDEs, and terminals so I could really be using any OS. I wouldn't say it's perfect but using OS X and then Arch involved different compromises.

[1] https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/

Thanks for these. You wouldn't happen to know of a decent windows terminal app, would you? I'm using ConEmu and man alive does it suck.