I went the other way around. I started with your conclusions and have been migrating to the Apple ecosystem and am tempted to move to Windows. I had become tired of the dearth of issues that crop up to maintain an Arch desktop distribution.<p>While the privacy collection issues should be addressed and be transparent to end-users I think open source is not the way to go for these devices. I&#x27;m tired of each device being an island. I like handing off calls from my phone to my laptop when I&#x27;m at work. It began frustrating me years ago when I couldn&#x27;t just flick a few files off of my e-reader to a friend&#x27;s phone despite the prevalence of available networks.<p>Open-source, meanwhile, has struggled to provide a basic desktop environment to rival the best from five years ago. It&#x27;s simply too much work without a paid, focused, and highly-skilled product team consisting of more than just developers. And they&#x27;re still fighting the chicken-and-egg problem of user-adoption.<p>I don&#x27;t like the spyware &quot;features,&quot; but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be going back to Linux any time soon and giving up all the great software I&#x27;ve come to depend on.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful that people will find ways to invest in its development and find a way to introduce a competing product that is both secure, in the control of the user, and a delight to use -- able to integrate with a plethora of devices and, for the most part, <i>just work</i>.