good news: just snagged a new laptop! nice modern refurbed thinkpad. beats the hell out of the nearly ten year old junker I've been using. naturally, it came with windows 10 preinstalled. so I think to myself, hey, a Windows partition might be useful to have, and the experience probably isn't nearly as bad on bare metal as it is in a VM...
jesus christ how horrifying. I've never been negged so hard by a fucking computer. paved over that shit with a Linux install without a second thought. yuck.