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Yes, so you don’t have to run a rootkit on a machine that you might file your taxes on.
I would bet 90% of people here have at least another laptop if they have a gaming PC, if you’re concerned about being compromised by rootkits, just do your taxes on that.
So you own one machine and Rockstar owns the other?
Well that was supposed to be the deal with the PlayStation, too.
"Your computer calls me root too"
There's nothing "just" about compromising one of my machines so badly that I don't trust it to file my taxes on any more.