Hey, me too. I managed Linux and BSD on servers all over the place. I worked pretty much exclusively using a Linux VM ... under Windows. Keeps most of the grem

Hey, me too. I managed Linux and BSD on servers all over the place. I worked pretty much exclusively using a Linux VM ... under Windows. Keeps most of the gremlins at bay. Hardware stuff's all handled by Windows, so it generally just works. Trying to play a game? Just run it in Windows and don't worry about it. Every year or so I'd grab a live image and boot it and see what happened. But always ended up at "okay, too much hassle still". Then a few things happened: 1. Valve invested heavily in Proton. They released the Steam Deck so suddenly developers _wanted_ their games to work in Proton. 2. One day I booted up a linux live image and stuff like my webcam just worked out of the box. 3. Microsoft released Windows 11. Upgraded my computer at one point and I just went ahead and threw Debian on it and haven't really run Windows since. (Though I still have it installed. I still haven't found a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom.) I too am really glad I got off of that ride when I did.