If you are running it in a VM or use WSL, start dual-booting.
If you're already dual-booting, make Linux your primary OS.
It's not hard, I promise! Most distros are very straightforward to install.
When you use Micro$oft Windows, you are letting Bill Gates microchip your balls using 5g towers.
Using proprietary operating systems makes you a lib. Stalin wrote at length about this and also how sick his Arch rice was.
More reasons to use Linux:
- Your OS no longer mails pictures of your genitalia to Steve Ballmer
- Jiggling desktop windows
- Richard Stallman stops sleeping underneath your bed
- Always feel like hackerman
- Helps starve the capitalist tech giants of their lifeblood
- Penguins are dope
Windows nerd here (sorry I grew up on it, I promise I'll reform!), my biggest problem with using and recommending Linux is that everything seems more complicated than it is. I needed a lightweight distro to test a PC because I didn't want to move a hard drive. Found antiX, thought I'd try it since it met my needs and is made by (at least nominal) antifascists. The wiki article on how to make a thumbdrive boot is something like 12k words and wasn't really aimed at windows users to switch. Luckily I remembered it was easier and rediscovered rufus. I completely understand having a 12k word article since it was in depth and had debugging, but if I can't easily find the instructions, I feel for the people with even less patience or concentration.
And yes I know other distros are easier to use out of the box. But I feel like my experience is how people see linux in general. Not to mention that when you look up what distro to use you receive completely different answers. 4 years ago I used Ubuntu because people were telling me. Now its completely different. My brain just wants a simple choice and there isn't one.
I wish people would stop thinking that they need to pick some obscure distribution to fit their needs. The more obscure distribution that you pick, the less people are maintaining it and it will be slower to receive security updates. The best thing you can do is pick a reliable distribution and then change it to fit your needs.
I can't recommend Debian GNU/Linux enough. It's one of the oldest distributions, originally released in 1993. It is very stable and has a very big software repository. Debian is committed to being 100% Free Libre Open Source Software. It is also very well documented.
When you install Debian, you can choose from 6 different Desktop Environment or install no desktop environment and then install a window manager. You use the installer to install the base system and then use the package manager to customize the system and install the software that you need. Software updates are also through the package manager.
If you are concerned about the ideology of the distribution, Debian has a very good social contract. Debian also has a diversity team.
Reasons to Choose Debian
Debian Social Contract + Debian Free Software Guidelines
Debian Code of Conduct
Debian Diversity Statement
Debian Administrator's Handbook
Cons of Debian
Software packages are distributed in binary form so that you don't have to compile them yourself. To an extent, you are trusting that the binaries were compiled properly by the Debian maintainers and not tampered with. This is not a huge concern because Debian is very committed to security.
Debian is very, very stable. The way that this is achieved is by locking software into a freeze state once every 2 years. Software in the stable repository only receives security update patches. You only get added feature updates every 2 years.
You are intended to install software on Debian exclusively through the main software repository. Installing software that you compiled yourself can be difficult. If you do this wrong, you could break the system.
Since Debian is committed to being 100% free software. Installing non-free/proprietary software is made more difficult. If you need proprietary drivers, they won't be installed by default.
edit/ Creating an installer USB for Debian is also very easy. You just download the installer ISO and image the ISO directly onto the USB device. You can do this with dd or rufus dd mode. I prefer to burn the ISO to a DVD-R because DVD-R are read only. You can test the data integrity with checksums and because it is read only, it can't be tampered with.