The primary reasons I prefer to use Linux over Windows: * No intrusive notifications or ads from the OS. For example, by using Linux, I no am no longer interru

The primary reasons I prefer to use Linux over Windows: * No intrusive notifications or ads from the OS. For example, by using Linux, I no am no longer interrupted with a notification that Windows Defender just finished an entirely purposeless virus scan; containing a "see less of this" button that takes me to the settings page where I am informed that Group Policy is configured by my employer such that I am not allowed to disable this notification. * No purposeless automatic virus scan wasting my laptop battery in the first place. * The ability to use a lightweight tiling window manager * The ability to mount filesystems other than NTFS and FAT, logical volumes, and soft RAID arrays. * No mandatory updates interrupting my ability to shutdown and halt the system. --- None of these is resolved by running Linux in a VM.