Are there any online collectives that work together to stop this tomfoolery?
Same as it has been for the last 100 years: Vote with your money. If you don’t like the product/service, don’t buy it. Stop thinking you can force them to change their offering.
You are joking. But https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ is real.
After trying Linux repeatedly for some 20 years and always returning to Windows for various reasons, Pop! OS finally seems like a Linux distribution I can use as a daily driver. The amount of useful and concise documentation is great, my hardware is all supported and automatically configured, i.e. I don’t have to mess around with obscure config files to get either audio or wifi working, it works on first boot.
Next you’re going to say https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/red_hat_linux exists for fearmongering.
I develop C# on Linux, but I run the full VS inside of a Windows 10 VM.