I got my laptop about 4 years ago and the first year I stuck with the windows it came with. Then I started trying out dual booting for 2 years with more and more just not bothering with booting windows at all. Until a windows update fucked up my bootloader and also literally deleted my linux partition. Immediately nuked any traces of windows off the disk and now it runs in a VM in case I need to use an app that does not like WINE