They charge money for a free OS, but they don’t use that money to provide more than installation support. They don’t offer troubleshooting support or upstream improvements.

Problem is that Mint and Zorin don’t take security as seriously as they should, and so I’m worried about the risks that would pose.

Plus Zorin is a bit problematic for other reasons.

You think choosing your Linux distro is bad, imagine having to choose your electricity, water, internet, phone, banking, and insurance provider as well as your local councillor, workplace, school, career, entertainment, childcare, car, house, food, etc.

This “love choice, hate choosing” is a really valuable thing to understand.

Ramping up supply costs money, and the AI bubble is on the verge of popping. They’d need to know that this demand would be sticking around before investing in higher fab capacity.

Fast-boot normally involves saving Windows to a swap partition and basically just half-hibernating. If that swap partition is shared with Linux it’d get overwritten and the boot method would swap to the slower one.

As far as I know there’s no way to make a swap partition be exclusive to Linux or vice-versa.

Only if you have a swap partition, and if you dual-boot then that swap partition is gonna be overwritten all the time.