"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.
Quite a few people in the replies seem to be missing my point, which is that the default option is the default option because it's easier. The non-standard option may well save time and effort in the long run, but in the immediate term you need to invest time and effort to make it work, which is something many people do not have the privilege to have available.
And honestly the people in the replies accusing me of "victimising myself" or "refusing to overcome my learned helplessness" are kind of making my point for me here. Some people wouldn't even know where to start with installing a new operating system Someone could be in a domestic abuse situation and worried about their abuser tracking them which is the hypothetical scenario which prompted this post, and being terrified and on constant alert is not the best headspace to learn something new
