Switching from Windows to Linux hurts mostly because I paid for the pro version

Why not dual boot?

I paid for the pro version of Slackware.

Me too, the pain of 30 € was fast away

Imagine buying windows, amateurs.

So what if you paid for it some time ago?

@petergriffin yohoho and a bottle of rum.

@darkwind yarrrr, mah dude

I keep my keys around and use them to quickly validate instances of Microsoft's developer VM images when the license expires and I quickly need them. It's not ideal because the downgrade from Enterprise to Pro takes a bit of fiddling but I don't know how to build a VMI and I don't care enough to learn it.

I could also learn how to automate my config and rebuild the VMs monthly while I sleep, but the whole reason I left Windows was that I didn't want to work with a company that considers the command line an afterthought.