The one making the claim is the one who is responsible for doing the research. If you can't tell me what data MS is supposed to be mining from me, then that tells me that you don't know. It's not up to me to verify YOUR claims. That's up to you. Or, of course, you can just say "do the research". And I can say that your mind is being controlled by small plush unicorns, and if you did the research, you'd know that. :P

Like I said, it's not a constant nag screen. It's one mouse click a week. If that's constant to you, then I guess you don't use a computer very much. LOL.

I don't know about Doric, but most of us aren't interested in recommending OSs to other people. Usually by the time they are posting on the net, they've made up their minds already. We'd only give opinions if someone asked... or in this case, if someone started giving unsolicited advice. From what I can see, no one said that Debian is a bad OS. What has been said is that your claims that Windows is as evil as you say are quite dubious, and your insulting people who use any other OS besides Debian is disrespectful and -- unfortunately -- a far more memorable indicator of your character than just about anything else you've done or said.

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