If you don’t like it, no one is forcing you to use those apps and services.
I go out of my way to avoid apps that harvest data, and as a result my life is much more difficult. It's a lot of work to stay on top of it, and there is still a lot of data that gets harvested anyways. It's impossible for the average user to do what you're telling us to do.
OP may have posted it to this mag instead of another one by mistake
It's a pain to constantly have to reboot to switch between them, you have less disk space, and Windows will sometimes interfere with the Linux installation. Plus there isn't enough things I can't do in Linux, that I can in Windows to justify it.
also i highly recommend at least dual booting linux
Dual booting is a pain in the ass though.
I describe it as chaos
Can you provide some links?