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Fair enough to be honest when I jumped in I dual booted with windows so always had a safety net (also was experimenting on my laptop before moving to my PC)
I never went back to windows. I had my stuff in a separate partition so when I went back to Fedora or Arch, I had my stuff there
Tbh same, I only ever went back to windows when I absolutely needed something to work immediately for something work related (my manager does not have much patience for my antics with technology when it doesn't go 100% smoothly)
My PC which is now purely for personal use I just completely wiped and replaced, didn't even keep the old disk contents because it was full of years worth of windows usage detrius
hahahaha nice. I hope I don't have to dual boot windows. My laptop is fast enough for VMs
As long as you've got patience and you're not using it for work you should be fine