1) Avoid costly hardware upgrades - valid, Microsoft loves to make you upgrade, and it sucks
2) Fight toxic waste - Eh, it helps, but most users don't want to use a 10-year-old PC anyway, so there's a limit to how much waste you can really fight. Plus mobile devices greatly outweigh PCs pound for pound.
3) Keep the right to run the programs you want - Total nonsense. The article says "what if the government forces Microsoft to block some programs". Won't that apply to Linux also? Won't they see what you downloaded from your ISP? There's a weird belief in the tech world that if you can just avoid the law technically, the government will just give up. "Oh snap, you got us, you're good man. Next time!" hearty handshakes all around
4) Run your computer without surveillance - Again, nonsense. This speculates that because Windows 11 requires a camera (which is technically a lie anyway), Windows 11 will stream a live feed of you back to Microsoft. Think of the bandwidth usage! Ugly photos of you will be in Redmond servers! This is another Linux user problem: assuming that if a company does A, they'll be able to take the next step without outcry. Oh, they required a camera? Well then they can just stream a feed of your video back home and no one will complain! They got us! Those tricksters! No. In reality if Microsoft sent a feed of video back home, they would be lambasted. They would be discovered by security researchers and they'd never live it down. It would be the end of Microsoft.
5) Avoid conveniences that lock you in - So because Teams is installed by default, you'll he "locked in"? In reality, no one uses Teams unless they're made to. By work, school, etc. and those decisions are made at an institutional level above you. So good luck avoiding Teams in 2021. Using Linux won't help you with that.
6) Run your computer without a Microsoft account - Valid. If this bothers you, you should use Linux!
7) Customize your desktop - valid, this one is obvious
8) Enjoy the most recent and stable versions of free software - valid
9) Increase computing diversity - valid, although diversity is also a synonym for "fragmentation"
10) Launch your skills as a programmer - This one is old as the hills, but it's kind of nonsense. Mac and WSL have equally good developer environments. "Use Linux become programmer" is just post hoc ergo proctor hoc.
11) Choose computing freedom - Valid. However, software freedom is a slight myth. You're "free" to modify Chromium and remove Google. But it's really difficult. You can run Ubuntu without systemd, but you're in for a world of hurt.
1) Avoid costly hardware upgrades - valid, Microsoft loves to make you upgrade, and it sucks
2) Fight toxic waste - Eh, it helps, but most users don't want to use a 10-year-old PC anyway, so there's a limit to how much waste you can really fight. Plus mobile devices greatly outweigh PCs pound for pound.
3) Keep the right to run the programs you want - Total nonsense. The article says "what if the government forces Microsoft to block some programs". Won't that apply to Linux also? Won't they see what you downloaded from your ISP? There's a weird belief in the tech world that if you can just avoid the law technically, the government will just give up. "Oh snap, you got us, you're good man. Next time!" hearty handshakes all around
4) Run your computer without surveillance - Again, nonsense. This speculates that because Windows 11 requires a camera (which is technically a lie anyway), Windows 11 will stream a live feed of you back to Microsoft. Think of the bandwidth usage! Ugly photos of you will be in Redmond servers! This is another Linux user problem: assuming that if a company does A, they'll be able to take the next step without outcry. Oh, they required a camera? Well then they can just stream a feed of your video back home and no one will complain! They got us! Those tricksters! No. In reality if Microsoft sent a feed of video back home, they would be lambasted. They would be discovered by security researchers and they'd never live it down. It would be the end of Microsoft.
5) Avoid conveniences that lock you in - So because Teams is installed by default, you'll he "locked in"? In reality, no one uses Teams unless they're made to. By work, school, etc. and those decisions are made at an institutional level above you. So good luck avoiding Teams in 2021. Using Linux won't help you with that.
6) Run your computer without a Microsoft account - Valid. If this bothers you, you should use Linux!
7) Customize your desktop - valid, this one is obvious
8) Enjoy the most recent and stable versions of free software - valid
9) Increase computing diversity - valid, although diversity is also a synonym for "fragmentation"
10) Launch your skills as a programmer - This one is old as the hills, but it's kind of nonsense. Mac and WSL have equally good developer environments. "Use Linux become programmer" is just post hoc ergo proctor hoc.
11) Choose computing freedom - Valid. However, software freedom is a slight myth. You're "free" to modify Chromium and remove Google. But it's really difficult. You can run Ubuntu without systemd, but you're in for a world of hurt.