I’m in the same boat. I think its a legit reason for someone to avoid nix unfortunately. Do you know of any efforts to mitigate this? Besides having reviews …

Yeah, I was about to “sign” until I had to provide the data which we sign to not have to provide. Great. I mean I get it, but feels weird still

I talked to one of the contributors at Linuxtage Chemnitz and he explained that there seems to be special interest from manufacturers not having any more windows support for machines that still run perfectly fine. Just fyi.