How'd you do that? I've made registry tweaks, group policy tweaks, etc and my windows machine still eventually hits a limit where it forces updates around the 12 week mark. Granted it's still longer than before, it isn't completely disabled.

Linux activists deficiently root against Windows

Have you seen Linux users whenever anything controversial happens? Like rust in the kernel, C devs being jerks, Wayland, Pipewire, Flatpaks, or tbh anything else that causes Linux users to loose their minds?

Nobody acturally expects privacy from Apple, if you use an Apple device they know Apple has all your information.

Oh, they love to chew each other up.

But, you know, it's in that left-of-centre, obnoxious-software-engineer way where they all think they have the right answer to whatever the issue is, they're going to save the world and make Linux the One OS and everybody else is an idiot. That doesn't count.

You may want to have a conversation with Nobody, I don't think he got the memo.

Regardless, the point is Apple gets more of a pass. If I say "nobody actually expects privacy from Microsoft" that's undeniably true, but hardly works as an excuse, does it?

At that point it's easier to install Linux.

I run Linux too, but I have to use windows for some contract jobs.

Sure but Windows users are far more likely to demand privacy while Apple users just accept thats not a thing on Apple.

Well you see my distribution of choice is the perfect choice, my window manager is the best one, and my specific choice of utilies (ex: Terminal, shell, text editor, file manager, toolkit, etc) are the best ones. Clearly you're the one trying to divide Linux users :3

(And of course my standard is the best one, yes there are thirty other universal standards but mine is better)

around the 12 week mark.

Not all computers need to tell the date & time, just uninstall clock.exe