This experience is very common. Eventually, people have had to essentially decide to either "burn the ships" and live without the thing they need or give up and

This experience is very common. Eventually, people have had to essentially decide to either "burn the ships" and live without the thing they need or give up and live with the pain of Windows. The good part is that over the past couple decades, the things that require Windows has become vanishingly small. Almost everything can be done on Linux these days.