Install windows, run debloat powershell script. Done.

Microsoft give no shortage of things to complain about with needing to exaggerate.

You can mount drives against folders in windows. So while D: is one drive, D:\Logs or D:\Cake can each be a different disk.

I threw Ubuntu 24.04 in a VM it’s been a few years since I’ve used it.

I was unpleasantly surprised.

I tried Ubuntu again recently for the first time in years.

Between Snaps and having to create an account to get security updates, I quickly gave up on it.