Grow up a little, btw.

That’s a lot of money, isn’t it? Just buy a 4Tb HDD, backup and store somewhere offsite. Will pay of in a year.

Real real Linux users use whatever the hell they want.

It has that.

It still says 4h ago. I checked a while ago, still the same. What the heck? Is it moving in time? Always four hours away? How is this possible?!

No, it is important to them because it makes them money.

I would just make a partition to install Linux on, keep the windows partition (resize first as needed) and then create a raw disk vmdk image to run windows from the real partition instead of a virtual drive.

Pretty easy and you can continue to dual boot whenever needed.