I took the dark path when Vista became thing. With zero technical knowledge, I turned to Linux, with no regrets.
My entry way was SUSE, which was a shock, with KDE and a radically user experience from WinXP, my former daily driver for many, many years; I was an unashamed fanboy.
My next and final distro was Debian, when Debian was everything but user friendly. But Debian gave me a sense of control over my computer, which Vista had very proudly took away, while gobling away resources from a not so powerful machine.
That computer stayed home for about eight years, when it died, beyond any viable repair.
Debian stayed, although I admit I've been using Mint lately, mainly to accomodate for playing GOG games with the least stress.
But I'm a Debian person, no doubt about.
And I am the kind of person that spins his laptop at someone sporting a Debian-based distro and utters "I am your father."
I've never used on owned an Epson but I've been hearing wonders about the EcoTank line.
Affordable, lasting, dirt cheap ink, user replaceable printing heads, also cheap, and linux friendly.