You have good points.
For me personally, the inconvenience of not using Adobe products or running Linux vs. Windows is not worth avoiding the (small, in my judgment) risk of NSA spying on me. (I haven’t been using Java for some time now so that one’s moot.)
Of course, all that could change next month. I have been on probation in the deep cover cell of my local right-wing paramilitary group, and they’re voting on my full membership at the next meeting. Once I’m a full member I’ll have access to their weapons cache and be in on the operational plan, so I’ll probably want to be much more careful with my personal computing.
(Just seeing if the NSA guy is awake.)
I’m nervous even responding to your post...
Adobe products are bug-ridden crap. I wish we could go back to the old days of Lynx, but then all of the multimedia aspects of the web would be gone.