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See, now that they've strongarmed everyone into using their new shitty OS and no longer using the old kind of okay one, they can change it however they want and all their users are stuck with it!
(Excuse me while i cackle madly in linux)
Funny how we've forgotten already the rage and backlash from users when it was revealed you could never completely disable telemetry in windows 10.
Now the general attitude is 'well, it's not as bad as 11.'
For the better part of a decade I used windows only for gaming, and now I've dropped it for that too.
I'm not sure why some people still refuse to consider using an alternative to windows these days.
Gaming on Linux has gotten really good thanks to proton. Never look back!
Sadly I've got too many programs that don't work on linux, or don't work well. And an old synthesizer that I can't imagine would work on linux unless I made a driver for it myself, and that's a bit beyond me.
Those are the main points that keep me from switching.
Winboat or Winapps - Both will let you use Adobe programs in linux pretty well with a sandboxed vm. Getting better every day. That is assuming you can't get done what you need on Open Source software alternatives - some are really good, others are a bit of a let down.
If you are fully on board with Kernal Anti-Cheat, then you have already given up on actually owning and controlling your PC. That said, there has been talk recently by windows about kicking 3rd parties out of the Kernal, so KAC might actually die soon (we can only pray).
I'd be curious to know what you are regularly using regedit and group policies to change. For a start, I bet a lot of it can be changed in the settings GUI or aren't problems that need changing to start with in Linux. Secondly, I think learning CLI is significantly easier than learning regedit - the navigation at least is a lot simpler imo. Unless you are just running .reg files you find on the floor of the internet, if you learned to use regedit you can definitely learn the Linux CLI (as much as you'll need to in order to do what you want).
Just saying, it is constantly evolving and most of the road blocks are out-dated or hinge on reliance on some other big tech company besides microsoft that is just as far down the enshittification rabbit-hole. It is not a decision you made once and have to keep living with. None of us swore a life-debt to our "team". :)
Edit: From a quick search it seems that Winboat and Winapps have the same issue as other virtual machines, namely that you can't really give them access to the GPU if you only have one. And graphics programs need that GPU access.
Of course! Make no mistake, I feel no affection towards any corporation, their main goal is to bleed us dry for their shareholders. But giving up my fully featured software and favourite games to follow my FLOSS ideals does not seem to quite balance the scales for me yet.
Though disclaimer: if I wasn't doing piracy, but actually had to pay for Microsoft and Adobe's rent-seeking, and be subject to all their bullshit restrictions, I would probably have jumped ship years ago. Enterprise group policies can remove a lot of user-hostile crap from Windows.