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I'd like to remove it but I don't have the internet abilities to get all my shit back nor any way to backup, so I'm just ignoring it until I get a new laptop and hopefully remember to put it on Linux when I get it. Presuming Linux works on niche high end laptops anyway.

I stopped dual booting in 2025 so there's almost no Windows usage at home now except with Winboat to use Vortex for some games on Nexus mods. I'm aware of workarounds but this is still faster and more reliable if I'm stuck using Vortex for Collections. Otherwise I'll faff around with prefixes and WINE like I did for Dragon Age Origins Mod Manager. Jackify for Wabbajack. Used LIMO too for Expedition 33.

I have: Desktop, Living Room TV PC, and an old server. They all run Linux now. x2 CachyOS and server is Debian. Server is just running BetterMC at the moment.

Stuck using Windows at work. I.T. strips most of the AI crap out and mostly uses the Office suite in Edge browser now except for Excel.

The line was...blurry? I just slowly got too fed up with telemetry, AI slop, vibe coding slowdown, ruined GUI in 11. At the same time Linux gaming was getting better and met my standards. I don't play anything requiring anti cheat anymore even when I was using Windows. Not out of principal but lack of interest. There's also a strong motivator in my life of ditching centralized American software.

The only reason I keep Windows is for Battlefield 6. Other than that, Linux for everything else and telemetry is blocked at the DNS level. (oh and I'm still running Windows 10 because 11 is a fucking nightmare)

Still on the fence about using it for work, my previous two employers let me use Linux, I'm not sure I'll be as lucky for my next job. (and macOS ergonomics seem so alien to me, plus Liquid Glass is a shit show)

I used Windows 10 for a while. But now I've completely moved to various flavors of Linux. I'll get GrapheneOS or something on a phone if possible later.

Only place I still have windows 11 is my work PC. Nearly all the main annoying crap is managed away by IT, and it's still irritating as hell.

I've no reason whatsoever to run Windows, even in a VM.

Its still on my wife's and step child's PCs, but not on mine. They don't seem bothered by it or don't use them enough to be inconvenienced, and I'll not force my will on their user experiences. If they mention anything about it I'll gladly help them get into bazzite as I have. So far we've all still been able to play the games we want to together. Oh and my wife has a work laptop that has to be windows but that can't be helped.

I drew the line back with XP. Couldn’t stand the fisher price interface, and OS X was getting seriously good at the time.

In the past it has been a necessary evil for some games, but with the increased Linux support my plan is to switch as soon as I have backed up the files I need.

I not only used, but supported Windows for many many years. I loved and used their technet subscription and was pretty much an evangelist until the whole Windows 8 debacle. This was my first glimpse that they may have lost the plot, but I had faith that such an old and established entity would undoubtedly right itself.

Windows 10 only grudgingly won me over and Windows 11 was a shot across the bow. My subconscious was already planning an exit, but yeah, when the whole fk privacy initiatives came to the fore I began actively planning. The very first day I couldn't find my files because of OneDrive and found out just how difficult it was to opt out of that? My computers started going to Linux. Their doubling down on AI simply convinced me that they have no idea what their customers want anymore. I've got one lone Surface Pro on Windows 10 that's no longer supported, and I've got a Linux NUC solution raised like the blade on a guillotine. One machine left and I say goodbye to this shitshow forever.

My work even said goodbye to Windows recently and we use Mac now. Not a huge Apple fan either but when corporations start ditching Windows as an OS? You'd think they'd take notice. Sadly their head is so far up their ass I don't know that they'll care.

It's a 365 instance on a small partition for work. I use PowerQuery a lot and found a VM slows down ETL times too much. I work at a university and can use our powerful VMs for remote researchers, but they reset workspace each day, so it's a hassle.

There's no other reason why I have a local copy still and it's always a relief to be done with it for the day.

Gave up on Windows fully on my desktop/laptop over a year ago after running numerous Linux servers for years (starting with a Raspberry Pi in 2016). I used to dual-boot for several years, and now I have a Windows VM I keep around in case I need it for something... but in practice I don't actually need it for anything and haven't spun up the Windows VM six months or more.

When they killed support in October. I'm still using it at the moment. I need to look for a long term use Linux distro, get a flash drive to put it on, and get a new SSD. With the current prices of PC parts, it looks like that's not happening sometime soon.

Causing me financial harm. For example, Verizon wireless hounded me for more than 3 years over $200 for a home router that I sent back to them.

The worst ms has done is make me read and disable/uninstall some defaults. They have encouraged me to look at alternatives and I have a number of non-ms devices.

Linux always screws up though and is redrawing the line for me. I have a small device that runs Linux and the upgrade process was backup all your data and then wipe/reinstall. wtf?

Another laptop wouldn’t login or let me do anything without typing in a PIN, while MS has Hello and UAC.

Looking up commands or blogs for something that should take 3 clicks, like fixing dpi scaling, shouldn’t take 30+ minutes.

If I struggle even the slightest with simple issues, it’s just not ready for me. I completed my college education solely on Gentoo machines (stage 1 I think it was called?) so I’m comfortable with Linux at a beginner to intermediate level. It’s just not polished.

I go to osx if they supported other hardware.