Okay, a few thing. One, I don't per se hate Windows 10. I do, however, overall dislike Windows: from the ways MS hides important information*, to the hassle of "genuine" Windows, to just generally grown away from using the Windows UI.
Having said that, two, I do particularly dislike Windows 10. The comparison to Android is pretty apt except that Google's spying is tied to Google Play and ilk. I can, if I choose, buy a phone or tablet without Google Play or otherwise buy a device that's rootable (not always trivial and might cost more for such a model) and overcome any spying that is built-in. The discussion about Ubuntu is in the same vein, although you can use Xubuntu or the like and basically avoid that whole debacle--if you're really paranoid, you can change all the update servers or simply not update at all to avoid even sending that information to Ubuntu or one of the mirrors. As much as there's some effort to include some degree of monitoring to sell ads or get a cut of search results that leads to ads, the actual parts that do this are well contained and the parts around it or even those parts are open source.
Compare this to Microsoft which is closed source throughout and has repeatedly pushed for the update of Windows 10, again pushes repeatedly to "try" their new apps in Windows 10, and send telemetry data to hardcoded ip addresses (that may be able to bypass the firewall--it's unclear if that's true or fear mongering). Sure, with enough effort you can block a lot of this stuff if not all of it, but you'll never be 100% sure and each update can bring more spying or revert changes while making it seem the data sending is being blocked. In the end, if you at all care about it, you're spending considerable effort trying to cat and mouse your OS just to avoid the vague spying Microsoft does, no matter how innocuous it all is**.
So, yea, I use Windows 10 on a separate system. And I have an Android tablet and TV dongle. I don't do serious work with them. I limit their access to any useful, personal information. I generally treat them as toys that could be spying on me. I definitely don't like that.
* Cloned a Windows 7 HDD to SSD, made the SSD online to verify the clone, and Disk Management secretly overwrote the SSD's unique disk signature (because Windows doesn't support multiple drives with the same signature) which made Windows unbootable. It turned out to be not too hard to fix with diskpart, but the simple fact that it was very opaque (and I had to temporarily disconnect the HDD to finally get Windows to boot the SSD, which also made no sense) wasted many several hours trying to figure out why something so simple would fail.
** Do we even have to begin to go into that (1) plenty of studies have shown that with only a few pieces of anonymized data it's often possible to identify the person behind that data or (2) that "Microsoft" per se might care about your furry habits but "Microsoft employee(s)" might in much the same way the NSA employees did? That's the reason even innocuous spying creeps me out.
to use Android OS as my desktop system over a Linux distro.
