ah yea, the reason to disable cortana arent obvious privacy concerns, but cpu usage,(reply>), BartholomewJS i think the far bigger problems are drivers, for example my audio interface and all of that elgato sh!t,(reply>), chrissx Media I was talking about edge cases where you can't allow a risk. If you're a normal gamer, you can run some games, but by far not all. Also the games you can run, have often issues or missing features. Same goes more or less for proprietary Windows products.,(reply>), BartholomewJS doesnt adobe work with wine? and proton is like good enough that you should be able to also run all that games.,(reply>), There is no reason to use Windows at all, except you're a hardcore gamer or your Job depends on some Adobe stuff.,(reply>), Penguin Masqué i‘d choose the first one, because i‘d rather use gnome than windows 7