Lol, more OS slapfighting. No surprise. Linux has made huge leaps over what it used to be, but if your software doesn't work with it, don't use it. If you want to try it out, simply follow an online guide to dual booting or trial it on a live distro via usb. If you like how it works, earmark a little more time to get a bit under the hood. Tinker with it. I recommend doing this on a live instance, since it won't actually fuck anything up on your actual hardware. Ignore the purists who tell you to go back to windows and just search for relevant info about it. Linux is an incredible OS once you get the hang of it, but to repeat myself, don't use it daily if the programs you want to use like some DAW and Adobe products, for the easiest example, just don't work on it. I have no idea why anyone would even try, although it's true that you can use a VM to run a complete instance of windows within linux if your hardware is capable of it. You may still run into strange issues, and if that's the case, just run them native in windows or ignore linux totally. Easy distros like Debian or Fedora will be fine windows alternatives if the user in question doesn't mind spending minimal time poking around for 10 minutes or so if all they want to do is fuck around on the internet or send an email. To me, if that's all you're going to do, you may as well just use a phone anymore though.
Use the machine you have in the most efficient and easiest way that works for you, there's no reason in my mind to get all up in arms over the way someone else uses a computer. Being an OSfag is about as pointless as being a consolefag.
To get into the actual thread topic, it's anyone's guess whether the Saas model Microsoft is pushing for will actually hold up over time. It's insanely intrusive, although easy enough to block with a common router based hardware firewall, but most people don't know how to do that, if they even know what a firewall is. I'll resist win11 for a while, just like every new M$ OS, until it matures some and people figure out how to get around it's bullshit and shortcomings. I've recently built a new 13th gen intel based desktop, and I'm still considering how to play the OS game. I'm actually leaning toward putting in the gruntwork to have a base, lightweight terminal driven linux OS be the top level that launches several virtual machines, but I'm not entirely sold on the idea yet. I may just dual or even tri boot it.
