Comment by leptons
5 days ago
>For individual use I guess the solution is to set it up once with internet connectivity and air gap afterwards.
That's simply not good enough for some purposes. Once a computer is connected to the internet, at all for any amount of time, the system could be considered to be less secure.
Sure, but why do you need to use Windows for such a specific setup?
Because someone somewhere wrote some software that only runs on Windows. That isn't the important detail here.