Microsoft makes an OS too. And to use it I have to spend an enormous amount of time turning off all its daemons that phone home, harvest my personal information

Microsoft makes an OS too. And to use it I have to spend an enormous amount of time turning off all its daemons that phone home, harvest my personal information, show me ads, and force updates on me. So no, I don't trust OS providers. I tolerate them and defend myself against them.