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My gaming PC has four NVME slots. Currently it hosts Windows 10 and Fedora, but since a new update was released it's also about to host SteamOS. When W 10 support ends later this year, I'll use Windows 11 ARM in a VM on my MacBook and that'll be that.

The only thing I really needed Windows for was gaming, tax preparation and running Scrivener. You can get native versions of Taxcut and Scrivener for MacOS and SteamOS is good enough for me 99% of the time. If I really must play something that's Windows-only there's always GeForce Now which has the added benefit of only tying a Windows instance to my Steam account and no other online identities.

Sayonara, Windows.



I switched to 100% linux (PopOs, Suse) and the only app I really miss is Scrivener.


A mac mini is cheap if it's worth in investing in a platform to buy an app ala buying an Apple II to run Visicalc.


I don't want to run a closed source OS anymore.




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