Should I put Linux on my laptop? It’s not like I really use any of the Microsoft apps but as a student, getting rid of them seems a little like tempting fate. I know how to set up and use virtual machines and I’m fairly confident that it if I just need Microsoft Teams or something, that a VM would be just fine. I have been using Linux for a while and really enjoy it, the more I use windows the more I hate it and all its stupid limitations, the AI, the poor user experience, privacy concerns, and the instability of it all. For Pete’s sake it was actually easier to install Void Linux than to install Windows 11. When I first got my PC and tried to put windows on it, it took me the entire week. I’m also doing a lot more development than I used to and have to go back to the windows file system is painful. I would love to switch to Artix or Void on my laptop but there are just a few things that scare me like not having a certain app or potentially ruining into issues when I just need my laptop to work (hilariously enough, I have easily encountered and successfully fixed more issues on Linux than on windows.)