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Gaming is my passion, my hobby, and by far my largest expense save mandatory things such as my mortgage. I don't understand why this means that I cannot say that Windows 10 is upsetting to me unless I give up a huge part of my identity. It is an unfortunate situation from which there is little recourse for people like me.

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I'm not saying people shouldn't play games, hell, I'm a gamer myself. But we have to compromise in life, and when I fire up my Windows VM, I understand all the implications that come out of it: I might get malware, I might get my personal information sent to various sites, my OS might be upgraded to NewWinOs or downgraded to OldCrappyOs automatically and so on.

And this is freaking unfortunate for everybody involved, except the big companies like Microsoft, Google, FB, Apple, etc.

The solution is two separate machines. One Linux machine for all personal computing and dev work, and a Windows machine with Steam on it, and anything else game-related.

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