Accessibility is an excellent reason to choose Windows, probably sufficient even on its own, if you need an accessible system. Accessibility is hard, and requires a ton of resources to do well...Microsoft has been willing and able to expend those resources. I do know users who require assistive technologies to work who use Linux, but it&#x27;s rare and they&#x27;re extremely technically savvy themselves (usually software developers).<p>As for finding help, I usually find it&#x27;s the opposite, or at least the kind of help I find for Windows is often very cargo cultish. e.g. &quot;I did these fifteen mysterious steps, and my problem when away. I think that&#x27;s what fixed it.&quot; I feel much more in command of the system with Linux. This is, admittedly, at least as much my own depth of knowledge. I&#x27;ve been building products for Linux for two decades, including kernel development, patching system libraries and services, etc. I actually understand Linux systems on a pretty deep level; I don&#x27;t understand Windows systems, beyond the GUI.<p>Firewall? Meh. The default firewall on a Fedora system is fine. There are tons of free tools for managing the iptables firewall (and firewalld simplifies management at the expense of flexibility). I never use a UI, though, as it&#x27;s pretty easy to use once you understand the basic concepts. But, a firewall isn&#x27;t really the most important part of securing a system.<p>Application replacements could definitely be an issue, with regard to accessibility. I am more comfortable with Linux options because of familiarity. I&#x27;m less productive with the &quot;leading&quot; applications than I am with their Open Source competition in almost every instance. Inkscape is easier for me than Illustrator, Gimp easier than Photoshop, but again it is due to extreme familiarity. Over a decade of use vs. occasional forays into the Adobe products because a designer I&#x27;d hired wanted to go back and forth on designs and was using Adobe products.<p>Sometimes ease of use is just another way of saying &quot;What I&#x27;m used to&quot;. I&#x27;m just much more used to Linux. I used Windows full time for a little under a year after switching from Amiga in 1995, then switched to Linux, and have been using Linux almost exclusively ever since...I have a Windows partition for games and audio recording. Of course, I&#x27;ve been using it almost exclusively all that time because I strongly prefer it and always have, even when it was really rough around the edges and patching and compiling kernels was just a normal part of being a Linux user. I don&#x27;t miss those days, but the strength of UNIX&#x2F;Linux over Windows (to me) stood out even then and even with all of the warts.