That may be your own main reason, but Linux on the desktop has a lot going for it, besides just privacy.
That being said, it's disingenious to say that Linux with provide your with privacy. This is only true if your particular install does not include any proprietary software and you yourself trust it to respect your privacy. As soon as you install Chrome, Steam, or Discord, for example, you immediately have a program on your computer that collects different kinds of telemetry and calls home, regardless whether it's running on Linux or not. And even if you installed a distro that is built on FOSS, remember how one version of Ubuntu used to send all your dash searches to Amazon through a Canonical proxy? Yeah.
The best tool to counteract spyware is to be mindful of what you're doing.
Understandable but a main reason why linux is important is privacy... linux is open source and doesn't have tracking like the spyware that's Windows
That may be your own main reason, but Linux on the desktop has a lot going for it, besides just privacy.
That being said, it's disingenious to say that Linux with provide your with privacy. This is only true if your particular install does not include any proprietary software and you yourself trust it to respect your privacy. As soon as you install Chrome, Steam, or Discord, for example, you immediately have a program on your computer that collects different kinds of telemetry and calls home, regardless whether it's running on Linux or not. And even if you installed a distro that is built on FOSS, remember how one version of Ubuntu used to send all your dash searches to Amazon through a Canonical proxy? Yeah.
The best tool to counteract spyware is to be mindful of what you're doing.