Yes.

But, as usual, the enemies of privacy cannot stop pushing.

The whole thing is an obvious scam. Hence details do not matter.

Indeed. "Exciting" is for products you do not need.

But with the usual non-working minds of the nuclear fanbois, this will probably sell.

Well, there is a "late stage monopoly effect". It is when the product gets so bad that you cannot base your business on it anymore. I guess MS is close to that point now.

Are they cheap and do not talk back? Dream employee!

Just as a reminder, LLMs get randomized to better resemble a person. People are not deterministic in any way (unless you are a quasi-religious physicalist fuckup that mistakes religion for Science), and hence LLMs are made to not be either.

Not in Europe. They could do it, but then their executives should probably never visit the EU again and they should close all dependencies here.

Gnome? What's that? I do remember throwing off systemd because it gave me problems in the first hour of having it on a system. If it looks like crap and smells like crap ...

So far I have noticed zero disadvantages of my approach.

Indeed. This is about average users behaving in reasonable ways not being able to be reliably secure anymore.

With these disclaimers? Doubtful.

Well, MS made sure to live up to everybody's expectations by not only making this a security mess, but also a reliability mess! So much quality. So much winning. So much improvement.

Au contraire! For attackers, this is an exciting new feature that will offer endless new functionality and may finally prevent users from sabotaging their efforts by actually having a clue and being careful.

While I understand your requirements and they do make sense, they are not realistic at this time. The technology is not mature enough for it and will remain not mature enough for quite some time. Hence something has to give. With Linux, you will need to do more system administration and occasionally fix some things manually. The good thing is that things generally stay fixed on Linux. With Windows you will get lack of security, reliability and, more and more, lack of usability. It will also break in new and unexpected ways from time to time.

Pick your poison.