I'm ashamed to say that it took me installing Windows 11 on my mother in law's laptop while running a pihole and seeing the amount of requests to shady data brokers the install wizard made to finally move to Linux.
If I had known how seemless everything is, especially with distros like Bazzite, I would have switched way sooner.
You're probably also quite young. In my 20s I had a huge friend circle. 20 years later it shrank to just a few.