How else could they ever claim the millions in “adoption” of their products?

It would be the year of Linux on desktop tomorrow if ever known brand of PC came with it preinstalled

I’ve seen movies about this. Usually there’s tears involved.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Users not putting their foot down and switching to a different OS is all the consent they need. I dropped windows a few years ago when I felt they were just getting too invasive.