I also thought about it, and it actually makes a lot of sense.
But it would only work if it’s unintentional like it was supposed to be on the tv series.
Good luck fitting in society at that point… And avoiding all dependent technologies - cars, every city and shops that uses image recognition…. Plenty other ways to indirectly get anyone’s data in this world.
Now you can turn to the forest but is it better than the alternative ?
Because the average person doesn't have time to figure it out and make things work. Linux isn't the solution for everything. Linux users have become the vegans of the internet.......
Someone who has reached the point of abandoning all computer technology entirely would probably be willing to make the effort of installing a friendly Linux build. It's not as complicated as people think.
Because fixing every flaw of Windows with the registry editor is so much easier. Also why all the people I help due to their broken Windows don’t seem happy about it?
Either for privacy or because we destroyed the biosphere mining the precious minerals we needed for stupid gadgets that the earth becomes uninhabitable due to rapid ecosystem collapse as the ocean heats up to a point where photosynthesis is no longer possible and we all suffocate slowly on a desolate planet.