Controversial take from someone who dual boots windows and linux on my home PC and uses macs as work machines but, honestly windows is fine. IMO if you’re the kind of person who cares about a good running machine you’ll have configured settings and gotten rid of the bloatware and done a bunch of stuff to make windows a relatively decent experience anyway, and linux requires a similar amount of effort to get running the way you want it also, but can be a differently polished experience.

Modern OS’s are much of a muchness in practice with regards to their pros and cons. Please don’t downvote me to hell linux lovers, it’s my honest opinion after decades of use of all three.

it’s more that even if this did happen, it’s unlikely to be specific to mint.

I’ve actually never met a vegan who acts like this… linux users however

And yet you and most people use a door with a lock instead of something more secure because… in general they do work well for the purpose they’re trying to serve. Most criminals aren’t master criminals, and master criminals aren’t coming after your house.

Yeah, but then the fisherman became ill and he couldn’t afford treatment and lost everything. But the retired banker could fly anywhere and get the best treatment in the world then come back.

It’s perhaps a contrived and bad example, but it does show the story glosses over quite a big difference in situation between someone who can choose exactly how they live, vs someone who can just choose a few things about how they live.