[ducttape45]

I'm almost to the point where I will not need any Windows O/S except perhaps W7, and that's only because I use older versions of Acrobat and Photoshop that won't run on Linux. Yes, I know there are alternatives but for ease of use I prefer those programs. Everything else I can do on Linux.

User beware though, if you plan on dual booting your PC like I will, newer versions of Linux (22 and newer) tend to wipe out the boot sector for Windows and as a result, it'll only boot to Linux. I should know, I found out the hard way. So when I reinstall Linux it'll be Mint v21.

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> User beware though, if you plan on dual booting your PC like I will,...

Let me make a suggestion. If your computer has a decent multi-core CPU, and sufficient memory (RAM), rather than dual booting, consider getting VirtualBox (free) and running one of the operating systems as a virtual machine within the other.

You can do it either way (Windows on the metal and Linux in a VM, or Linux on the metal and Windows in a VM). I prefer the latter, because then backing up the Windows OS is trivial, just copy the VM file to some other drive.

The main advantage of VM'ing over dual booting is that both operating systems are running simultaneously, so programs in each OS can run side-by-side, and you can transfer files and clipboard content between them seamlessly. The main disadvantage is that the CPU and RAM are shared, so if your computer is resource-poor, you're better off with the dual boot so that each OS gets all the resources, just one OS at a time.