Holy shit, ZDNet is still a thing?
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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What’s wrong with them?
Oh, nothing on my end far as im concerned. Just an old company name i hadn't seen in a long time
5 reasons you should not ditch Windows:
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Your hardware is incompatible or you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines
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Your applications/games only work well on native Windows (and not wine)
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You need serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods
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Your company policy requires it
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Makes helping Windows users harder if you cannot walk them through the same things they are doing
Of course if any of these apply you can always dual-boot or use a VM. I'm not saying you shouldn't use Linux at all.
What's with all the downvotes? Anyone care to explain?
This is community, where major portion of users only criticize Windows and praise Linux.
And rightly so! 😇
To me, my activity on my own computer being monitored by Microsoft is the only reason i need to not use it.
And I do actually think you may be slightly mad to be OK with that. Maybe because you feel you get a "free" operating system. I think thats the mentality of a slave.
The first one (MS account) is so weird to me...
I mean, I get it, people are just allergic to "anything MS", but it's just silly.
Set up a "burner" MS account. Use it to set up the OS, get your BitLocker recovery key and the OS license backed up automatically for easy use. Create your regular local account, switch, remove admin rights from the MS account, never use it again.
Job done, problem solved.
The third one (better performance) is disingenuous. Better performance... where? On what hardware? Nvidia drivers are notorious for causing issues. Many games, even on Proton, run like crap or just... don't run.
The last one, security, is also a bad reason. Linux is not inherently more secure than Windows, it's just less attacked due to a lower desktop market share. What Linux does have, however, is that it's massively easier to break by a clueless user, especially when following online advice when something isn't working - and that's going to be a common occurrence, especially with freshly-switched newbies. Windows will prevent noobs from breaking or exposing a lot of stuff.
The urban legend that Linux is more secure than Windows needs to die.
It’s easier than you think to try out on dual boot. You can also run your windows apps through a virtual machine!
Is dual boot a good way to ease yourself in? I literally just made a new nvme partition to try a dual boot
Don't do it on a machine that holds valuable data or one that you need the machine to stay functional for work. I repeatedly fucked up my installation trying to get dual boot setup initially. Bootloader are easy to mess up. Even on a working installation, a Windows update would sometimes break the dual boot.
Its not difficult to set up a virtual machine inside your Linux installation. That way you don't have to reboot and lose your other workflow to access your windows apps.