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I see no reason to use Windows anymore, it has become a bloated mess with telemetry, spyware, constant idiocy where MS pushes Edge and Bing. If there is something I need Windows for, I can just use my Shadow Cloud account and just run Windows in the cloud. Cloud gaming does not give a damn which platform you are on either.

Gaming is increasingly platform agnostic with Steam, Proton, Vulkan and Wine. Netflix doesn't give a damn which platform you're on. The only reason I still used Windows in the past was compatbility.īut I have now switched to Linux Mint for most things, because installing Windows increasingly feels like you're installing malware and spyware.Ī lot of technology on a PC nowadays is platform agnostic, so software compatibility is less and less of an issue.īrowsing the web is fully platform agnostic with HTML, CSS and JS.
