> What do you do if everyone on the sell side of the market uses telemetry? Just stop using computers?
Well, that's not going to happen. I doubt Slackware would go down that road, for example.
But lets say that what you assert happens -- all that means is that I won't use distros. It doesn't mean that I won't use computers.
It's entirely possible to install Linux without using a distro or prebuilt binaries at all. It's also possible to keep using an older version of the operating system.
But, being essentially lazy, what I'd most likely do is an extension of what I do with with most applications these days: firewall off the servers that the OS is trying to communicate with.
That's the beauty of foss, you can just remove the offensive bits.
And your need to run an OS on your computer is your problem, not theirs. What do you do if everyone on the sell side of the market uses telemetry? Just stop using computers?