I’m a basic user with technical background, but not a computer geek. I switched to Linux Mint over a year ago. I got tired of all the garbage on Windows that slowed it down. It seemed like the sole purpose of Windows was to expose you to advertising and sell you crap. It’s a crap OS IMO. I can dual boot into either Windows or Linux. I still have programs that require Windows. Linux is so much faster for basic browsing, email, banking, etc w/o all the garbage. No regrets and will only use Windows when I have to.
[[It seemed like the sole purpose of Windows was to expose you to advertising and sell you crap.]]
Yep- they sure did go down that road- with all their ‘app store’ crap-
As long as someone can learn how to dual boot- it really is having the best of both worlds- especially if the second os will be windows 7
I woudl suggest putting virtualbox on the windows machine, and running linux in that box IF one has to go online while in windows- will make it much safer-
only problem is i run a game online with my windows 7 os- iracing- can’t run it through a VM though unfortunately- but the site it runs through is safe- and likely will be while it is operational- I do not do any online browsing in windoes 7- but if i had to I’d fire up the VM and do so