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Do you like being spied on and having your data sold?
=> Windows or ChromeOS
Do you have too much money?
=> Mac
Do you have a decent set of working brains?
=> Linux
Microsoft's telemetry isnt ideal, but they're not selling your Windows usage data. That is explicitly just used for the OS developers to diagnose issues and evaluate what features are being used.
Your bing data and shit they are absolutely selling, but it has a different privacy agreement.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
yee, guess they are acually the good guys.