I spent my holiday break shifting my alignment 2 or 3 points towards Stallmanism. The existence&#x2F;collection of statistics like this increase my confidence in that choice.<p>Between Windows privacy craziness and Apple&#x27;s continuing lockdown of OSX (I think that System Integrity Protection augurs an iOS-like walled-garden future for OSX), I recently switched all of my OSX&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;Ubuntu systems to Arch Linux; it takes some tweaking and setup and a bit of command line hacking, but it&#x27;s really awesome to have all my machines doing my bidding -- I tell them what to run, when&#x2F;what to update, and I&#x27;m in control of synchronizing settings&#x2F;files between them.<p>With Windows&#x2F;OSX (and Ubuntu to a lesser degree, which I&#x27;d used previously), you can only kind of hope that it does what you want, and when it doesn&#x27;t work, you kind of bang on it a bit to try and get it to change its behavior. All the while, the computer is doing a large number of things you don&#x27;t really want it to do (what are all these processes? why is it connecting to x.y.domain.net? what data is it sending? why does it insist on trying to get me to log in to XXCloudY? I don&#x27;t want to use that), but which you&#x27;re kind of powerless to stop (aside from e.g. blocking connections with another physical network device), even if you knew what was happening. But you don&#x27;t.