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I am starting to make the effort in switching but honestly, it's not going as easily as I hoped... I got my old Surface Go running fully on Mint now and I've got some frustrations trying to make it work the way I want. I'm sure I'll get there, but what seemed like a fun project has become frustrating.
Next I plan on setting up dual booting on my gaming setup, which I suspect should be less frustrating than trying to run Linux on Microsoft hardware. If that goes smoothly I'll wipe Windows on the machine and switch fully to Mint there.
Only thing I don't think I can let go of Windows on is my work laptop. I use too much MS office suite stuff for work and have to move documents between people all the time. I already tried using Libre Office at work a few years back already and it just didn't work out, especially Power Point / Impress.
Overall, yeah, I think we should all start making a move off Windows when I see the state of things, it's just... not that easy for everyone.