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Same! What pushed me to Ubuntu was that Windows broke like three times in major ways in the span of a few days. One time, Windows update... disappeared bootmgr.exe. Another time, Windows bug checked after a few minutes of use. Yet another time, Windows update broke the boot partition. idk if that's exactly what happened, but point is the issues were big. How this happened in the span of like 3 days is baffling to me, considering I installed Windows from scratch each time.