Except for the two applications that only run in Windows…
I lost the use of my Windows 7 partition on my laptop last week after a Windows update. They have been pushing Windows 10 for a while now, but I have ignored it because Windows 7 is just fine for me. I tried to ignore the latest nagging update and: Oh, joy! The computer is stuck in an endless reboot loop. Fortunately, I had a dual boot system and the Linux OS booted right up. Go figure! I was able to mount the Windows partition from Linux and recover all of my files. This is a good reason to have a dual boot system or keep a bootable thumb drive handy. At first, I thought I might be losing sectors on my hard drive, but no. It turns out, one of the files that changed during the update was corrupted. No big deal, I can reload windows and be back in business.
It will only take an hour or so. An hour that could be better used for something else, something akin to billable hours, which is how the mortgage gets paid. My computer is not a hobby, it is a tool. I don’t have time to play around with things for fun.
Then I thought, why bother? I am using Linux with no serious disruptions. In fact, it boots faster, runs faster, is more secure, and generally has fewer hangups. LibreOffice has all of the applications I need for general correspondence and business administration. I can run Win 7 as a virtual machine in VirtualBox as long as I can get the USB device I need to be recognized by Linux and then passed through to the virtual Win 7 OS.
So, to hell with Windows and all its nonsense. Goodbye, you inferior, expensive, and buggy piece of garbage. I will not miss you.