my reason is stupid and two fold. One is just pure laziness as I had a nice setup for my day to day on windows and it would take some effort to get going with linux. The other is I have been in IT and its kinda handy to use day to day what you have to work with or support (this includes my wife who I have not gotten off of windows). Once im working I should be able to buy a new drive and stop my last uses of windows since I have only done the super easy low hanging fruit.

I mean I did not post anything about switching but have commented multiple times. Fact is I should have switched awhile back as I already knew it had gotten to the point it could do everything I needed it to. Windows 11 was the tipping point. I could no longer delay and it was already a massive pain to block the telemetry and such especially since updates would regularly reactivate things…

not updating only works if your so out of date that there are tons more machines with new attack vectors that have not been patched. As time goes by new sotware is not all that new in the way it functions. Its just not a good way to go. I will say to that all the work with blocking windows telemetry is more than any work dealing with linux. Especially so if you use an easy distro.