[dreamcompiler]

I actually spent a couple of days trying to preserve the Win install so I could dual-boot in case I wanted to test my code under Windows or play games, but I finally got tired of f&cking around and gave up.

I have no interest in running Windows day to day. I live in Emacs, the CLI, and Common Lisp, all of which work best in a Unix-based OS. So it's MacOS or Linux. Plus I'd heard too many horror stories of how difficult it was to turn off all the Microsoft spyware, advertising, and no-choice updates to ever consider Windows seriously.

This was a couple of years ago before WLS was production quality. I might try again if I was doing it today, but only if I could turn off all the Microsoft daemons. Even so, I still find it philosophically distasteful to have to engage in technological warfare against my operating system just to stop it spying on me.