Or they're on something bleeding edge / trying to do something non standard with drive encryption or raid / want to avoid using Microsoft account / cut the spyware. Those are all not as easy as they sound.
dream_weasel
You missed the part where you either sign in with your Microsoft account or cut your Internet, remove the webcam, fake your own death, and do the secret tap code in the bios to just have the OS without letting Microsoft into your butthole.
It's a lot easier to do the former than the latter. Windows fixes a lot of things about the experience, but maybe not the exact flavoring / theming.
Linux you can't say anything about the experience besides sweeping generalizations by distro.
"I'll take things that have almost zero chance of working for 400, Alex."
Do you know what those self-mummifying japanese monks ate to mummify themselves? Plants. Not even very many plants.
I don't want to be a mummy.
Seems like the right side should be classic terminal tools like ed. Or any other cat/echo/etc where you change the contents of the file without opening it (or all of it) directly.
Maybe have both. Dual boot is not as helpful as a VM, or st least it wasnt when I was trying to make the switch.
Whoa hey, what about Xbox something-the-fuck and candy crush? I bet your Linix doesn't have that!