[Wilderness Conservative]

I moved to Linux mintjs ago. Eff Windows. Never going back.

[CatOwner]

Yeah, my preference would be on Linux only. But there are some Windows applications I haven't been able to replace/substitute within Linux. That list gets shorter all of the time, but I still have a handful I can't replace.

So, for now, my main PC is Win 10 Pro (with a *lot* more disabled that listed in the linked article). My backup PC and laptop are on Linux Mint.

[Blue Highway]

I tried Linux Mint and I got half of the battery life from Linux than with Windows 10 on the same laptop. I tried all the battery saving settings offered in Mint but I got less than 6 hours and I usually get 13-14 hours on WIN 10.

[fireman15]

I moved to Linux mintjs ago. Eff Windows. Never going back.

A lot of non-Intel hardware designed for Windows 10 does not play nice with most varieties of Linux. The work around of course is to run Linux in a virtual machine, but I am not sure that this solution would satisfy a purest such as yourself.

[usconservative]

Same here. I went Ubuntu for my daily driver desktop more than two years ago now and I won't go back to Windows on any of my personal machines. (I keep one VM to help friends, that's it.)

My work laptop is Windows 10. We're moving to a BYOD model. Our IT will support Mac, Windows and Ubuntu for remote computing. I'm in I.T. Leadership at the big multinational bank I work for and I along with many others have been clamoring for a BYOD model. We know how to interoperate with Windows from Mac and Ubuntu desktop and enable Active Directory login for all three. Our logins are moving to a cloud based Active Directory to separate users from our data centers and are implementing a zero-trust model.

We'll save tens of millions of dollars per year with BYOD. Most of our IT users are choosing Ubuntu or Mac, roughly 50% of our user community are choosing Macs because that's what they have at home and they're the most familiar with.

Bye Bye Microsoft!