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But...I don't want to use Edge...so I don't.
I really don't give a shit about the data they might be collecting on me, since everyone else is too, and I have yet to see any horrible effects of that.
Windows does what I ask it to do, and I don't feel that it's forcing me to use it in ways I don't want to. I primarily use my computer for surfing the Internet, watching YouTube, doing a bit of online shopping, and playing two games. I guess I don't really see how switching to Linux could make my experience doing that better in any significant way...and certainly not to any degree that might justify educating myself in how to choose, download, install, set up, and use any of the different options.
My last go-round with Linux ended when I realized that I was just trying distro after distro (is that the right term?) basically looking for something that looked, sounded, and smelled like Windows, and eventually I realized that all I was doing was trying a bunch of shit that wasn't Windows and trying to turn it into Windows. Everything felt like a crappy workaround, tasks that should've been simple and intuitive weren't, and while, yes, Linux did seem to have an android program to anything I wanted to replace, in every case it just seemed like "Discount Store Syndrome", where everything was the slightly worse knock off version of the real thing, only different for the sake of being "not Windows".
To that I can only reply with the following quote: “Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” ― Edward Snowden (the guy who literally risked his life in order to inform the public about the fucked up shit that was and still is going on at the NSA, a real hero)