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I don't think Microsoft will intentionally break anything, but with the increasing adoption of passkeys you may find that some stuff doesn't work in the future (probably with vague error messages).
I recognise your laziness, it took me a few years of dual blotting before I switched completely. With WSL2, I'm not sure if I would still go through the effort to dual boot had I started now. On the other hand, Linux has improved a lot since I first installed it, so who knows...
Yeah I have been down that hole too it’s mostly all the online logins and sessions that I have collected over years of using that os(windows) and pc and some old data that I don’t really want to wipe but also don’t really wanna go through the hassle of copying the important stuff off of windows.
Also some of the games that I played used to have such obnoxious anti cheat systems that I couldn’t imagine the hassle to get them to work to be worth it but thanks to the steam deck adoption has increased immensely since I last tried gaming on Linux.
Wsl2 doesn’t quite do the trick for me it just makes me want the whole package but I use it for programming because I don’t know windows shell commands for shit and everything is tied into windows/ms at work^^
For your file transition: there's a tool out there that will convert an NTFS filesystem into BTRFS, which you can install Linux to. I'm not 100% sure what the risk for data loss is, but for basic data disks it could be a quick and easy solution.
You could on theory install Linux, copy the files from your Windows home to your /home, and then get rid of all the Windows folders. You may even be able to keep some programs installed and run them under Wine if you're lucky!
That sounds very good I think I’m gonna try that, thank you.