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I switched for good in 2019, when I realized that I was wasting more time getting windows into a usable state than the average arch user.
Privacy and usability were the biggest reasons for me.
Damnnnn, I heard that. I went on a damn spirit quest after Windows pushed out a botched update that I rolled back from using a system image that failed. There truly is nothing like seeing that the system images you've been dutifully making for literal years were no good the first and only time you needed them. I was able to salvage it but holy fuck, what a ride.