I agree that everyone deserves privacy -no argument there. I wouldn't call windows users 'lusers' and in fact I did not. That said, Microsoft has made it abund

I agree that everyone deserves privacy -no argument there. I wouldn't call windows users 'lusers' and in fact I did not. That said, Microsoft has made it abundantly clear what direction that they are going in and it is an invasive consumer-hostile anti-privacy direction. This will not change. For that reason, open source solutions such as Linux or better yet OpenBSD (in ideal only, I don't run it and wouldn't expect anyone else to) are the only chance of retaining end-user control and privacy. I say 'chance' because it's not out of the realm of possibility that Microsoft, Google or others will social engineer consumer-hostile changes into the Linux ecosystem -I have no illusions about that. But at least consumers have a chance and that is something that can not be said of Windows.