Advantages and disadvantages of adding programs and the operating system windows to mac?

For a long time Windows user., new Mac user. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the addition of the windows operating system and programs for the MacBook Pro? I use word and excel regularly, but not yet sure I want or should add capacity to my new Mac.

If you need Windows programs that don't have any equivalent of Mac, there is nothing wrong with it.  I have not because I didn't need Windows programs.

But...

If you do, you must decide if you need full-system-resources (Bootcamp, boot sector corrupted system, OSX will sleep while Windows is running) or just one-environment virtual (VM, share system resources, runs as a 'guest' to OSX at the same time as OSX).  Bootcamp will have part of your partitioned drive so make sure you have spare disk space.

And if you go Bootcamp, position and spend time in the Bootcamp Boot Camp forum where lonely T is an expert who can guide you.

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