[CatOwner]

I have begun my last year with a Windows-based PC as my main computer. Next October, when Windows 10 becomes EOL, I will be switching my browsing and online account accessing to Linux. I am not touching Windows 11 and all of the privacy issues it entails.

[ducttape45]

I'm gonna do the same thing, but I'm a different boat, sort of. I have three machines, but they are older PCs; Gen 1 or Gen 5 Intel machines. I have them all dual booted with W7 & W10, but the W10 machine is version 1909. It won't run anything newer because it locks me up.

But I'm almost to the point where I don't need Windows software either, except for when I need to run my older Acrobat 10 and Photoshop CS5 software. That's really all I need it for. So when the time comes, I'll program me up a Linux disk and tri-boot my systems. Linux will (once again) be my primary go-to O/S and my Windows O/S's will be used very sparingly.

A word of caution with the newer Linux O/S's, especially Mint 22. I found out (the hard way) that Linux will wipe the bootdisk.ini and make Windows inaccessible if you try to program it in side-by-side with Windows. So if anyone plans on dual-booting Windows and Linux like me, take care not to lose your Windows O/S in the process. It can be done but it takes some tinkering.