I was loyal to Windows because I earned a living fixing people's computers, and 90 some percent of them were running Windows. In order to work on it, I needed to be very familiar with it. But things change. Now I'm retired and most people just use their phones, or if they do use Windows, they only use the web browser. So recently, getting tired of Microsoft's bad behavior, I started transitioning to Linux Mint. If nothing else, for the geek cred. I still have to go back to Windows on occasion for some proprietary Windows-Only software, but I'm spending most of my time in Linux and I love it!! And it is waaaayyyyyy faster on my powerful but ancient workstation. It's just a matter of time until Microsoft no longer supports this ol' thing, but with dual Xeons, 48GB RAM, and an NVMe SSD it's still got a lot of life left in it.
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I was loyal to Windows because I earned a living fixing people's computers, and 90 some percent of them were running Windows. In order to work on it, I needed to be very familiar with it. But things change. Now I'm retired and most people just use their phones, or if they do use Windows, they only use the web browser. So recently, getting tired of Microsoft's bad behavior, I started transitioning to Linux Mint. If nothing else, for the geek cred. I still have to go back to Windows on occasion for some proprietary Windows-Only software, but I'm spending most of my time in Linux and I love it!! And it is waaaayyyyyy faster on my powerful but ancient workstation. It's just a matter of time until Microsoft no longer supports this ol' thing, but with dual Xeons, 48GB RAM, and an NVMe SSD it's still got a lot of life left in it.