Though complaints about Microsoft are valid, I am always baffled that the same people that complain about Windows getting worse in terms of privacy and user's control are then pointing to Google Docs and some SaaS crapware as an alternative that enables switch to Linux.

Yeah, great, now you have an OS that respects you and you can delete every file in root directory, but use web apps that steal your data from you and you have 0 control over. What a win!

A lot of Hacker News posters work for Google and/or SaaS crapware companies. There's economic self interest at play here.