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I sometimes do. But I'd point a gun back and say, make the penguin run this software in a way that doesn't require a power user or take a newbie three fucking weeks.
I use Linux a lot and have about ten PCs running it so far, but I literally just installed Windows 10 on a shitbox that will very rarely be online because it was my best option for the software and respecting my time. I don't work in IT. I run a small nonprofit and I used to build and upgrade/repair PCs as a side gig.
I honest to god do not think it's any harder than Windows. You're just used to the quirks and skills necessary to deal with Windows shit.
I have made laundry lists in the past of things that either you can't do with windows, or you need to regedit and hack around it. Literally basic as fuck things.
Hell, until a year or two ago, you couldn't open the location of a file from a file search, and it obscured (and still does) the full path of the file in the search pane. Not to mention how bad the search is in general.
Don't get me started on the "modern sleep" bullshit lol
It becomes apparent if you stop using Windows for a few years, when you get on it again the quirks hit back with the power of a thousand suns
No it's just to run a single proprietary software for some old hardware at my job. It won't even be connected to the Internet. After trying for a couple of hours I had it set up and working on Win 10 in about 20 mins including the windows install.
Windows 10 on a shitbox!!!! You and I have very different definitions of that - lol. The 'shitboxes' I have (two of them) find it difficult to run even Windows 7, but Linux zooms on it like a breeze.
I know the frustration though. I sometimes use cracked software - mostly for learning new stuff as a hobby (CAD programming, designing etc) and they come only on Windows, SOo....
But these days free and open source have also come up so beautifully. FreeCAD is like this whole new thing entirely, so are LibreOffice, Inkscape, GIMP, LibreCAD, Scribus, Blender (never used this one though). Using LibreOffice has made it next to impossible for me to use MSOffice. But yes I do need that one or two shitty proprietary things because, just because...
My job has some old equipment that has proprietary software that I can't get to run on Linux. It's literally the only thing I need that tower to run. It's a 2nd gen i5. It runs Windows 10 acceptablyfrom a small SSD. It won't even be connected to the internet.