I suspect that despite not supporting it with security updates, the juicy telemetry will still be collected and sold to data brokers.

I’ve been on Linux for 20+ years and have never had to rely on paid for support. The paid for support is really geared towards professional big business work stations and server stacks. If you need support for Linux you can find free support on their forums 99% of the time. It’s the IT departments with lazy techs that rely on Linux paid support.

You are right about the Micro$uck hate though. Why should I pay to use an operating system on a computer I buy and use until it’s reached it’s EOL when I can use Linux to do everything you do on windows and I don’t have to pay for the software? In today’s economy, it makes sense to use Linux.

They just want to shout about them while ignoring paid support for extended life Linux.

Ironically, you're just shouting about linux while ignoring the context behind the paid support for "extended life linux"

The paid support is for enterprise linux distros like Red Hat. This support is aimed at businesses. Not regular end users.

Regular users can get Long Term Support (LTS) versions of regular distros entirely free. Such as Ubuntu's LTS versions. With the cool addition of being able to freely move to the next LTS version whenever that comes out to replace the current LTS version.