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5 reasons you should not ditch Windows:
Your hardware is incompatible or you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines
Your applications/games only work well on native Windows (and not wine)
You need serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods
Your company policy requires it
Makes helping Windows users harder if you cannot walk them through the same things they are doing
Of course if any of these apply you can always dual-boot or use a VM. I'm not saying you shouldn't use Linux at all.
The only legitimate thing on this list. Also the most obvious and pointless.
I don't think anybody is saying to format Linux over the company computer against their Windows policy.