I recently had to install a small windows partition on a storage drive so a program could be used that wont run on anything other OS. It took about a day and a half because windows demands a blank hard drive to install on, and so everything on the drive had to be copied and deleted from it. Windows wont install on anything other than a completely blank hard drive and you can only partition a drive that windows is on from within windows itself. It wont install on a blank partition on a drive, even if the rest of the drive is completely blank too. It needs access to the entire drive at install. No Linux OS requires this, I don't know about MAC. Then it takes forever to update, creates a bunch of partitions for itself you don't seem to have access to, and even then you have to download 3rd party software to conveniently shut down all telemetry communications with Microsoft since there is no straight-forward native way to do that... and even then, well, they probably still have access.
Windows 10 LTSC "Long Term Service Chain" - no microsoft store, no edge browser, no cortana - keylogging etc.
Can be force downloaded from microsoft, there is a reddit thread on this. Been running for a couple of years - Gaming only. Have not deep dived on telemetry cause Windows box hardly touches the internet. Linux Mint, Manjaro, Dietpi otherwise.
I recently had to install a small windows partition on a storage drive so a program could be used that wont run on anything other OS. It took about a day and a half because windows demands a blank hard drive to install on, and so everything on the drive had to be copied and deleted from it. Windows wont install on anything other than a completely blank hard drive and you can only partition a drive that windows is on from within windows itself. It wont install on a blank partition on a drive, even if the rest of the drive is completely blank too. It needs access to the entire drive at install. No Linux OS requires this, I don't know about MAC. Then it takes forever to update, creates a bunch of partitions for itself you don't seem to have access to, and even then you have to download 3rd party software to conveniently shut down all telemetry communications with Microsoft since there is no straight-forward native way to do that... and even then, well, they probably still have access.
"shut down all telemetry communications"
Windows 10 LTSC "Long Term Service Chain" - no microsoft store, no edge browser, no cortana - keylogging etc. Can be force downloaded from microsoft, there is a reddit thread on this. Been running for a couple of years - Gaming only. Have not deep dived on telemetry cause Windows box hardly touches the internet. Linux Mint, Manjaro, Dietpi otherwise.