People are tired of hearing about it. They don't feel like they can do anything about it.

We moved on and used alternatives. And stayed on alternatives.

The caring cohort has mortages and kids

And Linux for desktop is finally easy enough for those of us with both.

Microsoft ordered me to buy a new computer for Win 11, so I took said kids to Microcenter, asked for a machine whose specs could play a particular steam game on Linux, returned to my mortgage, installed Ubuntu and haven't given Windows a second thought in months.

Anyone remember when Ubuntu sent every keystroke to amazon?

Richard Stallman probably. Hopefully EFF.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-online-search-fea...

yes, and it was a correct outrage, and the solution was also nice and easy (remove this modular thing instead of switch to FreeBSD)

and importantly it seems that Canonical/Ubuntu is not doing something like that right now, whereas MSFT is all in on online only mode.