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I have no idea what Windows does since I use Linux exclusively at home and macOS exclusively at work, but this sounds... unlikely.
Could you clarify a few things?
Do you mean using the system search thing that's usually used for launching programs? Or so you mean something built in to apps? Or Cortana search assistant (or whatever they call it now)?
Can you change the default search engine? I use Firefox w/ DuckDuckGo, and I've never used any kind of OS search (I disable it when possible).
Does Windows reach inside Firefox somehow?
And yeah, I get that Microsoft is spying on its users, that's a given, but I don't see how that translates to switching OSes just to use a browser. There are plenty of other reasons to use Firefox aside from some privacy protections (and Firefox really isn't all that private by default, it just blocks some cookies), such as: