There are several services offering code micropatching, I still have a perfectly safe win7 machine online for retro gaming

God all you noobs coming over I’m going to have to switch to OpenBSD to keep my cool nerdy edge /s

No “what if”, you 110% can! I’ve been running Linux on a netbook for over a decade. It would absolutely choke under the weight of a Windows installation.

I already tried. Linux has some issues with basic things like a working sleep mode and a working thunderbolt port at the same time on my laptop.