[binarin]

For my personal computers I was actually buying Windows licenses up to and including Windows 10, but now I switched to alternative acquisition methods again, and mostly run Windows in VMs with GPU pass-through and disabled networking. Just an honest relationship - they don't respect me, I don't respect them.

[M95D]

You can set up a proxy server with a whitelist on the host, so it won't be completely offline. For example, to allow online games.