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I moved to Linux Mint from Windows 10 last year. Haven't looked back.

Anytime I need to start up the Windows machine, there are a million things popping up, updating, Windows update notifications, etc... and no I don't have any viruses. Just good ol' first party malware from Microsoft.

Yeah.. the longer I haven't boot up my Windows installation the more afraid I am do so because of the notifications.

When I have to do something on Windows I use someone elses Win computer if possible.

That's great but office won't run on linux mint.

You can do it via VM which a lot of people are going to do.

From what I understand, Codeweavers' Crossover (or Wine) supports running many versions of Office quite well.

True, I use the web version of Office when it makes sense. I only reserve an actual desktop for things like Word because it doesn't work as well in the browser. I'm not a heavy Office user though, so YMMV.

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