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[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Because sometimes one has no choice, be it for your job, or hardware support, etc.

Unfortunately, there is some scientific and medical equipment that only supports Microsoft Windows (often obsolete versions, which is even worse).

[–] desconectado@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

I feel you... some machines in my previous lab were running on windows 98.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

as much as I love Linux, some softwares don't work with it

haven't dualbooted windows yet though because I have a small drive and I don't need Windows update fucking with my bootloader