I have dual boot Win10/Ubuntu on a SuperMicro motherboard with i7 ninth gen, 2x2TB NVME, 32 GB RAM. It runs fine, but I have it set up as BIOS, Not UEFI, which Windows 11 wants. I want the ability to swap out hardware without causing a nervous breakdown. Windows 11 is primarily spyware, and patches to Windows 10 have made it a junior version of spyware. I want nothing to do with Cloud Drive and am annoyed that my work on Win 11 defaults to Cloud Drive whenever you want to save or retrieve anything.
Do you remember when Windows 10 was released, that Microsoft said this was the LAST version of Windows? That anything after that would be a completely different product? They reneged, but I am not surprised.
Sure do! If they had any honesty at all, they would have said "This is the last USABLE version of Windows".
Once my need for a corporate domain membership ends, so does my windows use.
I have linux mint that works fine for everything else.
I also setup most of our computers to dual boot but I also use virtual machines either locally or over our home network. With USB 3 and beyond combined with fast external NVME drives... Windows or Linux “to go” installations work as well or sometime better as than a normal installation to the internal drive.
I have been a computer hobbyist since the late 1970s. I got my first “digital” experimentation kit probably from Radio Shack about the same time handheld electronic calculators started becoming affordable to consumers. I had a bunch of electronics kits from Heathkit and from Radio Shack.
My initial obsessive interest was in chemistry, but my mother made me switch to electronics after I stunk up the house one too many times. Although I was always a curious child.
My favorite author growing up was Alfred P. Morgan and I worked through a bunch of his books such as the Boy Electrician, which has always been one of my favorites.