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Guess I've never been in a position where that would make sense. To me it seems really messy and potentially dangerous.

My wife is expressly forbidden from using her personal computer or phone for work. She's not allowed to use her work computer for any personal use either, but why would she want to? It's locked down pretty tight.

I always tell people I won't use Microsoft or Apple products unless someone is paying me to. Until recently I had a Windows 10 machine just for that purpose but I didn't use it much during the COVID-19 pandemic so I've converted it to Linux, deleting Windows entirely. These days Windows seems about as useful to me as the 8 inch floppy drives in my garage. I haven't spun those up for many years.

It's possible that if I was still using Windows I'd pay the $30 and consider it a business expense.

The last version of Windows I used on my personal machines was 98SE and that was only so I could run the Opera Web browser. When Opera released a version that ran on Linux I switched.

Computers are just not that expensive these days. You can buy a refurbished lenovo mini or a brand new raspberry pi 500 for about a $100 and it will run Linux just fine for most purposes.

Once you are familiar with Linux you are freed from all these expensive forced upgrade cycles.

I don't play the latest computer games, use Photoshop or other Adobe products, or edit HD video, which may color my view.