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Your clipboard is all yours in Linux.

I get that no every use is supported on Linux but at this point most everyday uses are. I don't understand how people don't at least seriously consider using Multiboot and Windows only were it is absolutely necessary.

Modern Windows is little more than an appliance with all it's modern day adware. It's closer to one of those Amazon buttons designed solely to get you to buy more stuff than a real computer where the user is in control.

Must be some kind of mass learned helplessness or something.

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Multi-booting means stopping what I am doing and rebooting.

Unless I use two computers of course.

But since I can only use one computer at a time (for many practical definitions of "use"), I will probably use the computer that has all my tools on it.

And of course, Excel, etc. Which is why I went back to Windows after almost a decade of Linux as a daily driver. I am sure there are hills worth dying on, but Linux turned out not to be one of them for me.

Suspended virtual machine that you resume as needed might be a slightly better experience.

Is there an app like Parallels on Mac that supports seamless mode - it merges the Windows apps with my other windows?

virtual box can do a seamless windows mode. It in't as slick as parallels but it is passable.

Well there’s WSL to run Linux in Windows. It’s just a feature to turn on.

And before I started driving Linux daily, I ran Linux in VM’s for a couple of years to sandbox web browsers. This was before common browsers supported multiple identies.

But your question highlights why I went back to Windows. I finding solving many classes of ordinary problems easier than reading Archwiki.

I’ve found the Office web apps to be pretty good for my occasional use and they obviously work fine on Linux.

I used “Excel” metaphorically.

Office Online doesn’t solve Photoshop, AutoCad, Ableton, utilities for configuring miscellaneous hardware, etc. etc.

Like I said, I drove Linux daily for close to a decade. I found and used work-arounds. Going to Windows removed a lot of “arounds” and lets me spend more mental cycles on the work.

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