Is anyone else sick of all this forced "connected cloud" crap? My wife just got a new Windows laptop and the amount of dark patterns they use to push people to

Is anyone else sick of all this forced "connected cloud" crap? My wife just got a new Windows laptop and the amount of dark patterns they use to push people towards the Windows cloud is insane. I haven't used Windows in years, but it's glaringly clear that the entire modern Windows OS is designed around recurring monetization of users. Nowadays, Windows machines are essentially one big trojan horse waiting to either be hacked or tapped into by 3-letter agencies.