@xianc78 I fell into that for a few years mostly out of autistic paranoia, which I was ironically cured of when sent some emails to Stallman and he literally just said "calm down, avoid telemetry, data collection, and javascript."
For me it is always down to mitigating and keeping as much stuff as I can be bothered to libre. I unfortunately am still beholden to muh vidya. I don't know if those types of people see it as some epic flex to be as libre as possible or if they were as paranoid as I was. There's a point where it becomes a distraction. I think people should try to get others away from windows and mac first.