Yeah, I think from my current point of view, I would also be looking at BSD. Not sure if anything could make me go back to Windows, unless Proton and Wine suddenly went the way of the dodo as well.

Heck, maybe I would even consider spending the premium to switch to macOS. That one at least still has the Unix base with terminal access.

Android is still based on Linux, so depending on how much of a stickler this magic disappearance is, Android might be gone, too.

As someone who is working as an Azure and M365 admin for a living... yeah, nah, Microsoft. Nah.

I am glad I already made the jump to Linux at home, and frankly, I think Microsoft would be a fool if they pulled through with this.

I bet they'd revert the decision of making Windows cloud-only within a year.