I'm with you that we need some deprogramming when it comes to how we're far too complacent with the privacy-ignoring and humanity-disrespecting behaviour of Microsoft. But at least personally I was always someone who accepted it with gritted teeth because the alternatives sounded like a downgrade in other ways.

Now that Linux is faster, smoother, more user friendly and compatible than ever, it made the decision to delete my Windows partition much less daunting.

And now if Linux does give me headaches (it's not a perfect experience!) I'm much less likely to immediately give in and reinstall Windows because I'm now accustomed to the aspects that I didn't realise were so important to me before.