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And get what? Office, Proprietary Chromium forks, Steam games that you can't play? You'd need to start hunting data hoarders and most data is universal formats outside Windows programs that'd work on a Linux computer with Wine installed. You could also clone a whole repo locally beforehand and install programs that you don't have from a certain point in time.

Dependency hell only makes things worse: many Linux programs require specific libraries, sometimes even particular versions, which also need to be downloaded, often resulting in version conflicts. In contrast, Windows installers typically bundle all necessary dependencies (such as Visual C++, XNA, or DirectX), so everything required is installed together.

Solved by Guix and Nix maybe Gobo, I don't know that much about Gobo even Flatpak or AppImage which you mentioned Flatpak has a pretty huge repo AppImage is same as .exe, it being not widely used isn't a problem with AppImages and it doesn't really have any of the advantages of multiple versions of programs that can share dependencies of modern package managers like Guix, Nix and Flatpak

Unlike with Linux, it’s possible to continue using Windows far into the future, simply by keeping the installers, programs, games, libraries, and drivers stored on your own drives or physical discs. If the internet goes away, Linux becomes almost unusable, while Windows remains functional with what you’ve saved.

It works with what you have installed.