🚨🚨🚨🚨TURN OFF WINDOWS UPDATES🚨🚨🚨🚨
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VMware is now free for personal use, and of course runs on both Windows and Linux. You can switch to Linux for everyday stuff, and create a Windows VM inside of Linux to do stuff like TurboTax or whatever you still need from Windows.
Alternatively, you can create a Linux VM and do anything in that too. Actually that is a good way to learn to maneuver Linux slowly before fully transitioning.
Using a VM to make up for shortcomings (gaming applications where relevant for example) doesn't always yield the best experience.
It's important for people to ensure that they are getting the most suitable experience and know that no matter your OS, it's not going to be all sunshine and roses and that is valid to tell people to keep in mind.
Good point. I don't play games. My computers are crunching numbers, transcoding video/audio, serving up Plex, and running my smart home to keep stuff off the cloud. Whatever works for someone is the best for them. I have 1 Windows vm I bring up if I need it for something, and a win11 nuc knock-off that only serves up an azure cloud pc from work. I don't use it for anything other than running the windows remote desktop app.
The only bad thing about having a win vm to use every once in a while is when you turn it on you will wait for 30-45 minutes for it to catch up on the windows updates - and the updates for the one app you need to run.
Actually someone moving to Linux could do a P2V on their windows PC to turn it into a vm and they would have their same setup (assuming the drivers converted). However - trying to get someone who can even install their own OS to use P2V is difficult at best.