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Its is almost universally the main reason that even a lot of Linux daily-drivers still have a windows install available to them. They fuck up Office enough and there isn't a reason to even have Windows for most users.
That's why they want you to put all your stuff in their dumb cloud, because its the only reason people would keep using this garbage, because they can hold your work ransom in their shitty ecosystem.
That is the whole business model of tech now. Stealing your shit and selling it back to you. That is it.
Do what I did: vm your win machine inside linux. It's how i solved my legacy software / game saves quandry. Just duplicated the win HDD and virtualised it.
I dislike dual booting and will go a looong way to be lazy :P