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If you really need to use Windows for some reason--for instance, my job requires me to use software that isn't available for Linux (or, for that matter, Mac)--what you want to look for is a long-term service channel release of Windows. They're difficult for end users to find, but It's more or less just the OS, and not much of anything else. Updates are security only, not features. You'll typically need a Windows license, and then will have to buy an additional Win LTSC license on top of your existing license.
What if I want to use Windows for many reasons? I mean in cases where Linux could work, but it is a personal preference?
I get you're trying to help with your suggestion, but the way you started that comment isn't needed at all - it stinks of elitism.
You could have just said:
This falls a little flat to me. I've been using desktops since the IBM 8086 clones of the 80s; I don't recall ever seeing anyone that was passionate about Windows (or MS-DOS before that). Perhaps there were, but I don't remember them. Microsoft products were just kind of the default after a little while; people used them because it was convenient. Plenty of people are deeply passionate about Macintosh, or whichever Linux distribution they like, but I just don't see that in Windows. Most people seem to use it because that's what they have to use in order to play games, or run work applications.
But hey man, if Windows is really your jam, but you don't like the bloat, then you go right ahead! You are more than welcome to like what you like, and it's really not my place to tell you that you're wrong. I use Windows 99% of the time because I've got, uh, fuck, 35 years (?!?) of experience using Microsoft products, and the documentation for Tails is really, really spotty. (OMG, I just realized that I went to college the first time using DOS 6.22; I didn't even have Windows 3.1.)
You can have a preference without being passionate or evangelical about the thing you prefer.
I feel an operating system is a really weird thing to be passionate about anyway. And judging others for their personal preference in OS says more about the person doing the judging if you ask me...
I find merit in each of the major operating systems I use: Windows 11, Mac OS 13, Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS, and Alpine Linux - and those are just the ones I run currently. In the past I used OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, HPUX, Slackware, SUSE, Fedora, Redhat, Windows 3.11/95/98Se/2000/XP/7/10, and Mac OS 9 through 12 (with the exception of Cheetah and Mavericks).
But to act like you're better than someone else, and make it clear you think less of them, because of your choice in operating system is telling. As mentioned else where ITT it's like the console vs PC master race crap you get in gaming communities - it says more about the insecurity of the person trying to elevate themselves than anything else.