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I was dabbling for ~10+ years with Linux out of curiosity, but I was heavily invested in windows since 95. I used and liked vista, survived windows 8, but the moment everything started moving towards big brother I had enough. I was in the early access program and the insider program and I hated the idea of recall. The moment it came out in an early access program it was hacked less than 2 hour in the program, and all data could be extracted from the pictures as banking etc. Thus negating the need of complex viruses, you simply have the data in front of you. Then copilot... The fact that is deeply integrated in to everything like file explorer will break if you try yo remove it etc. I just realized this is not my computer anymore, I can't do anything with it that I want and I am paying premium to own this system.
Moved to Ubuntu, loved it but had some things I did not like, things like forcefull integration of not matured system changes on already proven systems (the rust saga), and other things. Moved to arch and I have been personally using Linux for close to 3 years and never looked back.
All the things I nerd work, those that I want and don't work natively I can try and run somehow and often it works often I have to find an alternative. The things that do not work anymore I don't nerd them. Like ms office, adobe (some already work natively or cloud based), and kernel level anti cheat games... I can save my time in to other games. 99% of the games I want run flawlessly or EVEN better than windows, I wonder why hahah.
Planing to move to fedore for a change at the end of the year :)