I hate it, but as a person with a lot of technical requirements on my software and system, there are use cases that I simply cannot use linux for. I’m developing a mod for Satisfactory right now, and a conversation I saw in the community was about how nobody has ever gotten the dev environment running in linux. That and other use cases make it virtually impossible for me to switch.

And dual booting is a non-starter. I’m not going to reboot my entire system just to check my email because I don’t trust windows with my login details. That’s absurd. I need access to those things all the time and I’m not going to keep a second high-maintenance system on hand out of a sense of principle.

Virtualising is also a non-starter because I need every little bit of performance I can get out of my machine, and again, operating a second high maintenance system which the original system now sits atop an extra stack which itself requires maintenance… yeah, no, I have things that need to be done. If one day I can afford to have a second gaming machine set up to tinker with then maybe, but that’s asking a lot.