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Just in time to exit Windows due to their "telemetry" programs.
I'm so happy that I never have to use that dog shit OS ever again, or any of their software for that matter.
Sadly corporate institutions still require windows
Yeah, definitely the downfall that spans way back to IBM. Thankfully my place gives that choice to folks (Apple and Microsoft both being proprietary but hey one is Unix based).
I was dual booting because of some games but decided to delete the Windows partition anyway. There are some games that I cannot play (mostly because of anti-cheat) but I don't care anymore. I'm more than 2 years free of Micro$oft and couldn't be happier.
I too was dual booting for a while but the last straw was when a windows update erased GRUB a second time. I've been on Linux exclusively for 4 years now and I haven't looked back.
Every time I have to use a Windows VM for something, I become more and more grateful that I don't have to use their crap anymore. What got me recently was finding out that you are forced to create an account and be online to even install the latest version!
Technically there are still workarounds like disconnecting from the network or editing the installation sources, but it's still anti-user and worse than in older versions. Win will continue to get worse over time. Look at a freshly installed, default W11 Home consumer desktop for example. What most people probably use. Just open the start menu. It looks like the OS needs an exorcism first, before you can use it. But maybe many people have already become used to things being this bad
Disconnecting the internet no longer works, you'll need to open a shell and put in a cryptic command to disable the check or use an email address which got banned