[Openurmind]

“Until Norton decides to turn it on remotely and use your machine for their purposes.”

Exactly, you are handing them control of your machine. I do not miss needing services like Norton one bit since going to Linux. :)

[ThunderSleeps]

Agreed. Seems about once a week I come across something in the Microsoft/Windows or Apple worlds that makes me glad I switched to Linux nearly two decades ago. Unfortunately I still have Windows on my work-provided laptop, and my not terribly tech-savvy wife (for better or worse) is firmly in the Apple camp.

I recently bought a brand new Dell laptop. It came with Windows on it. I booted it up into windows once just to ensure the hardware wasn't DOA. Then within 30 min of unboxing it I had wiped it's SSD and installed Manjaro on it. I'm using it now to type this.