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My old windows install was so cooked thst I had successfully made an illegal CON file (cygwin?) on NTFS, which Windows would refuse to delete because it should be impossible to make such a file.
After a completely fresh install, the settings app refused to launch after a day and of course sfc/dism did jack all.
Said "screw it" and dual booted Fedora because my previous experience with Ubuntu sucked snd I saw that video of Linus saying he never used Debian or Ubuntu because it didn't used to be user friendly to install. Searched up his preferred distro and it was Fedora.
Kept Windows around for a couple of months for one game until one day windows overwrote grub after an update.
Nuked it again and installed only Fedora. Found out the game now had solid support in proton so I literally did not miss anything from Windows.