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Is storage, especially when migrating / dual booting from Windows.
There's absolutely exoteric stuff in there that you will need to run once and then never again, so this knowledge will be lost for years, until you need it back.
Especially if you want to keep your old data.
Well, you see, that right there is your main problem. Today dual booting with Windows is highly discouraged. Windows is simply not meant for that and will actively fight you the whole time. Dual booting several Linux distros, on the other hand, simply trivial.
Now, if your data was a disaster on Windows (all dispersed across C:, no backups, not organized) then there's nothing linux can do about that for you. But, linux does offer other cool storage options like btrfs which permits deduplication, snapshots, automated backups, and other features out of the box.