I guess most everyone else that works at microsoft is cool with this.
Saint Luigi guide us.
I mean this person apparently was cool with it for years up until this point so…
I cannot recommend switching to Linux enough! Linux mint is a solid, stable OS with a thriving community and ample support for newcomers.
There are alternatives to nearly everything, yes YOU CAN absolutely live without microsoft or google tracking your every move, stealing your data, selling it and using that profit to fund unethical bullshit. Take back control, you will never regret it.
How hard is it to distro hop on your daily driver without losing your userdata/homefolder
Put it on a separate partition and you can easily keep it for each new install. I did that for quite a while.