I were referring to you implying that he should switch to *nix.
Also, never happened to me or anyone I know so really its nothing to worry about.
If anything, switching to a unix environment would be an upgrade. Sadly third party support is not great because companies like their proprietary old OSes, like Windows XP, and proprietary office suites, Microsoft Office. Some enforce usage of other proprietary software that is not available on unix systems, which is very sad.