Similar, after a crash, I reinstalled Windows, but using my Azure work account and a PIN to login. However, the feeling of not 'owning' this machine anymore just became too irritating.

After that I installed CentOS 7 on machines I use for work development, including a desktop, and my Razer Blade 15. Our products are RHEL / Windows, and most everything I care about can be made to work pretty well on CentOS 7, including Teams, VS Code, CUDA, Python etc. A few things, including cmake work a heckuva lot faster in fact.

Other machines I have mostly run MacOS (anxiously awaiting Ashai Linux!) or Elementary OS, which is pretty awesome.