Stop Trying to Convert Windows Computers to Linux. Instead, do this

I have been using Linux, exclusively, for 12 years. I have never installed it on any Microsoft computer that is newer than ten years old (using today's date) , and probably never will. Well, okay, maybe five years old using the date of this post, but that's the limit.

Observation and Theory

Here's my theory and point. Microsoft has, over the past ten years, increasingly considered Linux a legitimate threat. So MS has increasingly made it as difficult as possible for you to wipe their system and install a Linux OS. And they have made it even more difficult for you to dual boot or to run Linux as a subsystem, because they hate Linux and they want your Linux experience on "their" computers to be as painful and difficult as possible.

Microsoft effectively has declared war, albeit a cold and silent war, against Linux. And since PC manufacturer's are completely beholden to MS, they just go along with the war like the good little MS soldiers they are. Let me be clear: MS has declared Intifada against Linux, and any denial on their part is part of their Intifada campaign of lies, broken promises and technological terrorism.

Pride Goes Before Disappointment

I know there are a lot of you out there who are sure that you are enough of a technology genius to figure out how to get Linux to work on, let's say, a computer that was manufactured in the past 24 months and came with Windows 11 preinstalled. But why on earth would you do that, other than you love a good fight, even if the chances of you getting knocked out or beaten up during the struggle are substantial? Why would you not just buy a machine with no system installed, then install Linux on it? Or, better yet, buy a machine from a company that builds Linux computers that have Linux preinstalled? Sure, there is a feeling of great satisfaction that comes from installing the system yourself on an existing Windows PC. But is it really worth it?

Side Story

My wife has a Windows 11 machine that she used until she left the corporate world a year or so ago. I want badly to install Linux on it, but I won't for two reasons: First and foremost, I use the Windows machine because it runs Adobe Digital Editions natively; but that's a program that most people don't need or use. I do, and running it in Wine on Linux is next to impossible; thus, it is my last barrier to completely eradicating Windows from my life. Second, I am assuming a significant chance that I will have major problems, all intentionally created by MS, in trying to convert her relatively new Win 11 machine to Linux. So, I'm better off just plopping down a few more dollars to begin with, and buy a made-for-Linux computer from one of the Linux computer manufacturing companies (which will more than pay for itself in the first couple of years, if not sooner).

Come on, and Say It Again...It's no good, it's no good, it's no good, baby, it's no good

STOP BUYING NEW(ER) COMPUTERS WITH WINDOWS OS PREINSTALLED, THEN TRY TO CONVERT THEM TO LINUX. MICROSOFT WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO DO THAT WITHOUT INFLICTING SEVERE PAIN, WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT YOU WILL BE SORRY AND SWEAR NEVER TO LEAVE MS AGAIN.

INSTEAD, BUY AN OLDER PC AND CONVERT TO LINUX, OR BUY A LINUX COMPUTER, AND GIVE THANKS EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS THAT YOU WALKED AWAY FROM THE FIGHT.