That is why i hope that RISC V gets some more traction hopefully.

Look at TPM and all this bullshit... These essentially are hardware killswitches. If you don't apply the device you bought like these asshats want you to.

So why do you feel inclined to buy them in the first place ? Because there are almost no alternatives considering the fact you wrote, that all their software is essentially the same bullshit. Newer software imho even only is distributed to make you their datamine-slave, considering the fact that all the magic happens on their machines: not yours.

And these asshats let you pay three times for it: Hardware has a price, Software has a price, your metadata have a value and BONUS round: Rolling release they declared as bullshit. Because they are fucking asshats .

It is not only about the software. Locking accessibility of computing power is just another instrument to lock numbed-down enough sheeple into their fucked up cages.