computing does not have to suck
When it comes software, I often see this complete sense of resignation in People.
"Oh, why should I try to avoid companies that don't respect my privacy, all my data will be harvested anyways."
People just sort of... accepting that a product sucks, and being actively hostile to changing it. Thinking that it is simply impossible for things to get better.
Like how windows keeps getting worse and worse with every update, but often the same people complaining about that will be repulsed at the very idea of even trying an alternative, purely because it's not what they have been using, so it must suck.
For example, if you're looking at this post in google chrome. There's not really any reason to be using "vanilla" chrome other than to have google mine all your data. There's plenty of browsers out there that are quite literally just "google chrome but without the privacy violations". For example, Thorium or ungoogled chrome. Ideally, you'd be using Firefox or some derivative of it, but that's a different story.
Anyways, same thing is happening with Linux. There's plenty of valid reasons not to want to use it, but a concerning amount of people that are deeply unhappy with the decisions Windows is making will not touch Linux with a ten foot pole without having any justification besides "isn't that the OS where you need to have a compsci degree to install firefox?" or some similiar misconception that would be resolved with two minutes of doing research.
I think it's really important that we start caring about the software we use. I'm not saying everyone should go learn assembly or whatever, just that people do some research on what alternatives may be out there when they see products they use violating their privacy and making decisions they deeply disagree with. Yeah, it may take a bit of effort, but the payoff is absolutely worth it. Because, well, it ends up with you using software that doesn't suck, made by people that give a shit. And trust me, you can feel the difference.
I wouldn't want to go back to using Windows, for example - it feels slow, and like I am actively fighting the operating system at every turn. Maybe that's not the case for you - maybe there's some reason you won't or can't switch. But I think it's important to take a bit of time to reevaluate how much of the software you use on a daily basis actually respects you, and if you're able to switch to alternatives that do. You're going to be using it for a while after all, so I think it's important to try and make sure it doesn't actively suck.