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but not every OS collects and transfers user data to its vendor like the very good American MacOS and Windows do.
This is very true; that's just plain Capitalism, and the government takes advantage of that through simply asking for the data.
It's a great reason to never use MS or Apple software.
I'm stuck on Android, which is no better, at least until someone sells a phone that is reasonably usable as a reliably daily driver. So, I assume everything going through my phone is surveilled. It's the price I pay for not wanting to limit myself to a dumb phone; a minimalist phone that will allowed me to use a P2P encrypted chat client would be sufficient; I'd even accept Signal, although I'm not a fan. But phones like the Light Phone are just too dumb, and none provide any sort of encrypted chat. Linux based phones (or, a phone-oriented Linux distro) are almost there, though, and I'm ready to jump when one gets a decent review.