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Telemetry started way, way earlier then Win 10.
Not nearly to the extent that we have now.
The slowly boiling pot.
I've never used Windows as my main machine, but even before WINE/Proton were as mature as they are now, I never did personal or important work on my Windows installation. It might seem silly to care that Windows was sending back system specs in Win98(or earlier?), but it did it without asking or even informing. It was just such a huge sign of disrespect to the end user and Microsoft has only doubled down on that disrespect for the end user.
Except here people jump out if they're ccooked.
This is Lemmy. I'm surprised people have are defending any version of Windows, but most outsiders to this community are still very comfy in their surveillance state OS and will mock Linux users.