I read about that but appreciate the heads up. I was doing well with Linux Mint on the old machine (2011 is computer old) and this new one is a $1200 screamer from Amazon marked down to $260.
So I’ll probably shuffle partition and go Penguin again, retaining Windows for off-line use like games and snobbish applications.
Yep that's the ticket.
I run Mac hardware and use MacOS as my on-the-metal OS, but have VMware VMs of Linux and Windows. I often have all three running simultaneously on different monitors and copy/paste between, etc.
For offline use I have Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs. I don't intend to use Windows 11 myself; enough is enough. My job may require Win11 in the future, but they will pay me well to mess with that. :-)