I hate the social tyranny of mobile phones
and have absolutely no interest in Win 8's attempts to appeal to the facile whims
of the 21st Century cretin culture generation...

So I'll also stick with XP and Win 7 set to retro 'Windows Classic Theme'on my PCs.

But what I am genuinely keen to make the effort to try out
as soon as I refurb an old and creaky Celeron PC with extra Ram
is "AV Linux"

http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html

I've never before had the confidence to install & learn to use linux
but every indication is that AV linux is the ideal starter package
for musicians with non expert computing skills.