You don't need to fully commit or leave everything behind. You can have the best of both worlds.
Windows “helped” and my Linux files paid for it.
I used to have Windows 2000 on my primary partition, XP on the second and my data on the third. I formatted the primary partition with the NTFS file system, after which I put back the NTLDR and ...
Windows 10 is on its last legs: The predecessor to Windows 11 has already reached its official end of support in October 2025, and will continue to limp along with free Extended Security Updates (ESU) ...