@Doric
I think quite a few of us worked out that the "i" in your name is silent, but now that you've actually admitted it point blank, it'll be interesting to see exactly how much longer you are permitted to troll a member who has already asked you to stop addressing him.

@Morikins :-D
You're starting to behave irrationally, because evey question you just asked has been answered more than once already.  I'm not interested in defeating the 'Big N' - that would be quite a feat.  All I'm interested in is keeping the corporate data-mining tossers out of my business, because my user-data is none of their business!  I'm sorry but if you can't grasp that, I can't help you, and if you miss it yet again even this time, then it just means that you're choosing to miss it.  I couldn't care less about "Doric", or how many big names he manages to spell.  I do care about how you come across though, I've never seen you as a troll so far, so please, keep it that way because seriously, I can't make my position on the whole data-mining thing any clearer than I have:

I do not trust Apple, Microsoft, or any other commercal OS - but I do trust Debian.

As for what is getting data-mined from you, dear god, that's something you need to research.  With a bit of luck you'll be waving goodbye to Windows pretty quick and without any resevations whatsoever.  But if not, like I said, that's fine as well because at the end of the day, it's not me that'll be using it's, it's you.

Regards you not minding being nagged by a product you paid for, I'm happy for you, but personally, it's not something I tolerate.  If I were in the position I didn't want their "enhancements" while running a Windows system, I'd be pretty pissed-off about a constant nag screen.

If my non-existent user-data manages to get data-mined from my use of Debian, it'll be a miracle, and I'll be the first to take my wooly hat off to you and admit defeat if that happens, because despite your opinion of me, I'm really quite happy to be defeated and don't mind admitting when I got something wrong - not in the least.  So if Debian turns out to be a mistake, believe me, I'll happily accept it.

Only time will tell, but like I keep trying to get you to realise, my OS user-data can't get compromised because my OS doesn't collect it in the first place.