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I read recently that RPiOS has a Micro$oft key pre-installed (so that your RPi phones home to Microsoft)... It totally puts me off what is an excellent lightweight OS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/lbu0t1/microsoft_repo_installed_on_all_raspberry_pis/
That's just an apt repository(with a signing key)...
Yeah this is some bonkers mental leaps people are making. It’s not like RPiOS is telling Microsoft anything you’re doing. It’s out there for installing and maintaining Visual Code much more easily.
Not sure why people downvoted this. It's true and it's fucked up.
Luckily I never used their os.