I pulled the plug for good on Windows at home during the Windows Vista days, but at work I used it and macs…had to, IT, for a while longer. It got more annoying with the auto updates. Nothing like rushing to a meeting and your system is in the middle of an update…‘don’t’ shut down!’
Honestly though, isn’t there a linux equivalent to most anything on Windows these days? Even gaming is better, imo, thanks to Proton/Valve.
I’m running Windows after a possibly 20-year hiatus, but only to stream hassle-free video in 1080p from my providers. We use my PC for our home entertainment center.
I did manage to run SuSE on my work PC, with Windows in a VM, when I convinced our IT dept. at the City & Borough (County) of Juneau, Alaska that I would otherwise play by their rules. It helped that the entire IT dept. ran on Debian or SuSE. I was able to do the same when I worked for the Dept. of Transportation, but only on my travel rugged book. In-house I ran ArcGIS w/layering (which was all there was at that time) quite a bit and it demanded Windows.
Anyway, now that I have 2 fast TB drives & 1 slow TB backup drive, installing Arch to the 2nd SSD should (I repeat, should) be fairly hassle-free using GRUB. It’s a bit more of a hassle using Systemd-boot, hence it’ll be GRUB–which I thought I’d gotten away from. Oh well.
The good news, @RodneyCK, is that QTWebflix-git in the AUR does passably well streaming 1080p on Netflix & HBO Max. Still no-go on Prime Video. I’m about a half-donut away from Windows freedom. 
I pulled the plug from windows to linux in 2016 just because I was bored .LOL 
I think that’s good enough reason, by nature humans are explorers
Oops! Just ate the damn donut. I guess I’ll see ya’ll in Arch-only in a few hours. It being Caturday, I’ve been given time off for good behavior–and good treats.
Not until I can stream Prime Video in 1080p. Or I learn to suck it up. Or do it in WINE.
Today I’m pissed, though. It’s the telemetry from all of the other services running in Windows that chap my hide, including Dell’s. Grrr!
Yes, wine will work according to several users. You might try downloading a spoofing agent for Firefox (extension) as some users say this works, and would be the easiest method.
For the wine solution, here you go.
Happy Caturday!! 
Sorry, but I want to have a life instead of arch
I may do it in my vacations, coz I know I’m gonna spend half my day in (learning to) partitioning drives!
Oh BTW, left Windows just months ago in an effort to put some life in my ancient laptop 
Yea with 11 forward the only way to get rid of it is through the command line just prior to installing. NOT WORTH IT.
ufff… that was straight to the point! 
but couldnt agree more, especially now with this new garbage microsoft service agreements.
Feeling quite like @Xylerfox with this. I’ve also worked as a system engineer serveral years now and got rid of Windows in my private environment once and for all.
It was not a hard step for my casual day-to-day tasks but for gaming it got a bit more tricky.
But I love challenges and want to contribute to the proton project actively in the next year.
He said Arch not LFS
I’ve been using linux for 3 years, and Arch for the last year and a half. I actually started on Garuda, then tried Endeavour, and now I’m back with Garuda, especially after Endeavour quit having the zen kernel in the install. To be honest I don’t know why I went with them as I made it look very similar to dragonized.
Anyway, Gardua dragonized is my main now (has been since this latest release), I haven’t booted up windows in a month. Now with proton I can play pretty much everything I played on windows and I’m much more comfortable with linux commands than NT. I also prefer the desktop feel of KDE.
This is IMO just a better way to use a computer. Major props to the devs.
And I said for arch without archinstall script
Still easy, tbh ^^
Using the Wiki, or using the Archinstall script. Two very different things. Archinstall is probably easier for experienced Archers to use, since they (should) already know exactly what is being done, step-by-step. Remember, Arch used to have an official installer, and Archinstall mimics that one. Knowing what to do afterwards is another topic.
But for future users, if they don’t begin their Arch career by using the Wiki’s Installation Guide, they won’t otherwise begin to acquire the knowledge they’ll need to know what they’re doing in it. And Archinstall won’t teach them that.
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I didn’t know they removed this option. What was their reasoning behind this move?
I honestly don’t know. It seems they trimmed back on a lot of things in this latest release.
If you miss something, you can reinstall it.
It is an open source system. Please donate!
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