That’s entirely untrue.

That’s like saying Windows is meant for Visual Studio developers. You could use other IDEs but that’s not its strong point.

In a world where space is usually the cheapest and most available hardware on a PC

I read this in the movie trailer guy’s voice

I’d like to introduce you to BetaNews. The second one of the authors posts an article about anything Linux related, there’s this group that jumps straight to the comments about how much Linux sucks, it will never replace Windows, these Linux fanboys need to give it up already, etc. It’s so consistent that you could set your watch to what they say.

It was a sarcastic jab. I don’t agree with software piracy in general, that’s all.

Maybe they were referring to the Microsoft Halloween documents? Which were leaked on October 31 and was basically a manifesto against FOSS in general and specifically against Linux calling it “communist” software.

You can run into some issues with missing features, for which you’ll have to manually hunt down what’s missing and manually install it.

Oh no! Your pirated game isn’t working properly! Let’s blame the OS!

As much as I dislike Windows, it’s incredibly uncommon for it to blue screen unless there’s some kind of hardware fault. And if it’s happening in Linux too, you’ve got bad/dying hardware.

In Linux, if your system is hanging for a bit then coming back, then it’s probably a drying hard drive.

One thing you can check with is Burn In Test on Windows. It will stress all the individual components and tell you what’s failing.

I’ll use the crappy Win11 lappy just for MS office

LibreOffice works very well. I use it often in a company that uses Office exclusively, and I’ve never had a compatibility issue.