content: I migrated full to Mint 18 now. However, Linux is free so you can install anyone you want how many you want. At this point I have reinstalled Linux Mint on a encrypted VM machine that I can both use on Windows and Another bare bones Linux.  In addition I have an external hard disk that I also installed Linux on, when I boot up my PC then I can physically boot into native Linux so no dual boot and I completely bypasses Windows. My big concern is UWP that will infect Linux too. So even if you have Linux, it is going to get infected by Microsoft libraries that does contain telemetry data. So for that I am now setting up another Linux VM that will contain UWP applications, keep them separated from my main OS. Microsoft wants everything onto one basket, you can't install multiple Windows version with the same license.  But Linux has no limit.