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The complication comes from when I need to use proprietary windows-only software for whatever professional or recreative reasons.
Free (as in freedom) software is great for 90% of situations, but there are things free software just can not do.
Wine exists but it's mostly focused on video-games, and honestly, it's such a pain to get a windows program to run on wine that I prefer to just have a second SSD with Faildos and boot from it when I eventually need to use such programs. Which I make sure to unplug the ethernet cable when I do.
Bottles has made wine a lot better. Also, I keep a Windows in a VM, isolated where it belongs.
I just vm'd my entire win 7 machine with no nic.
When does that come up recreationally?
If I can't do something I don't do it.