Well I’d been on and off for years, but never made the switch due to games. Then windows 8 came out with a terrible privacy policy.

I’m an open book and wouldn’t mind sharing most of my data but I just think it’s improper behavior to make assumptions and to forgo consent. Privacy must be the default. I wouldn’t mind donating most of my data to progress say AI research, but it should be clear to everyone that it is my data and I decide what happens to it. And when it comes to security I believe that proper investigations and warrants are still a thing.

So ya I made the switch and sacrificed the ability to play certain games. Plenty of stuff to play any way. And this issue has been mostly rectified by now as there’s maybe only 5% of games that don’t run properly. Recently I had to refund baldur’s gate 3 due to some visual glitches. At this point I also feel that the developers are responsible for fixing these minor issues.

As a programmer I think it’s a more fitting OS all around for me regardless.