How many times you had issues running software on Windows compared to Linux?
Even with "consumer friendly" distro's like Ubuntu compatibility is an issue and you can easily screw up co-hosted software and even the entire OS due to the current dependency mess which plagues the F/OSS world especially on Linux.
Back in the 90's and maybe maybe early 2000's you would get silly error messages like .dll XYZ or cannot find ZYX .ocx on Windows but today? I don't think so, other things like configuring network sharing, backup, more advanced network setups are still considerably much easier on Windows than Linux.
And it's not just the UI both Gnome and KDE have offered pretty much 95% coverage of anything you can configure on Linux (core service only ofc) in the UI but their UI is still sucky.
I haven't used Windows server since 2003 jumped into 2012 and could find everything and any new features were self explanatory, trying to make OS changes in Gnome, meh i rather just find the config file and edit it manually.
Linux needs to get It's shit together, and hopefully one day it will, because ATM even with all the nice and user friendly package managers at best half of your software will come in archives which a basic consumer user doesn't know what to do with (nor should they) and at worst comes completely uncompiled forcing you to /MAKE it on your own machine hoping you got all the dependencies and the header files you need.
And for the software you can get from your distro's "app store" you still holding your fingers hoping one application wont cause all of your other ones to brain fart because the dependencies it uses are of a slightly newer or older version.
I've worked for a Company that tried to switch their desktops to Linux, and I've heard plenty of stories of people who encountered similar cases, it just never bloody works just like everything else and then they panic hire an entire new IT department who still doesn't manages to get everything working properly for everyone and scarps the entire project 6-8 months down the Line losing probably several orders of magnitude more than they would ever have gained from reducing licensing costs across their desktops.
Even with "consumer friendly" distro's like Ubuntu compatibility is an issue and you can easily screw up co-hosted software and even the entire OS due to the current dependency mess which plagues the F/OSS world especially on Linux.
Back in the 90's and maybe maybe early 2000's you would get silly error messages like .dll XYZ or cannot find ZYX .ocx on Windows but today? I don't think so, other things like configuring network sharing, backup, more advanced network setups are still considerably much easier on Windows than Linux.
And it's not just the UI both Gnome and KDE have offered pretty much 95% coverage of anything you can configure on Linux (core service only ofc) in the UI but their UI is still sucky.
I haven't used Windows server since 2003 jumped into 2012 and could find everything and any new features were self explanatory, trying to make OS changes in Gnome, meh i rather just find the config file and edit it manually.
Linux needs to get It's shit together, and hopefully one day it will, because ATM even with all the nice and user friendly package managers at best half of your software will come in archives which a basic consumer user doesn't know what to do with (nor should they) and at worst comes completely uncompiled forcing you to /MAKE it on your own machine hoping you got all the dependencies and the header files you need.
And for the software you can get from your distro's "app store" you still holding your fingers hoping one application wont cause all of your other ones to brain fart because the dependencies it uses are of a slightly newer or older version.
I've worked for a Company that tried to switch their desktops to Linux, and I've heard plenty of stories of people who encountered similar cases, it just never bloody works just like everything else and then they panic hire an entire new IT department who still doesn't manages to get everything working properly for everyone and scarps the entire project 6-8 months down the Line losing probably several orders of magnitude more than they would ever have gained from reducing licensing costs across their desktops.