Linux is a pain in the ass to use and many people just seem to use it to feel better than others.

It’s much easier to just properly configure Windows

Winget, get a popup when things request elevated rights,

They are also used by non profit organisations so…

There is a setting to disabled them.

The idea as far as I can tell is that it’s responsible for too many things and gives a massive point of failure.

You don’t. Hackers often exploit things like this for ages before they are found. Every bit of non simple software also has bugs.

But chances are you won’t be the target.

Just keep everything updated and you should be alright.

Open source doesn’t mean foss.

I think people being such zealots about getting paid is actually a huge problem with the open source community.

Giant corporations should absolutely pay to use these projects that are often labours of love done in spare time.

God forbid giant companies like Microsoft and Amazon should have to contribute to the development of open source software they massively profit off of.

So?

Weird I’ve never had to manually install a driver for windows.

That’s great!

Most people learn why you should back up everything the hard way I’m afraid.

Microsoft loves open source nowadays.

People do a huge amount of their work for free.

They’re also heavily invested in Linux for the cloud. So any work done there helps them.