I totally agree, that most tweaks do not come without investment. Freedom is rarely for those who search commodity. These are rather contrary concepts. But I personally really like about opensource projects, that they usually converge towards compatibility, privacy and security, while lacking features. Proprietary solutions on the other side are focused on delivering many features, making everything easy to use, while the business model usually incentivizes them to sell valuable user data, make very useful features as incompatible as possible with competitors and to divest security to stay competitive without wasting unnecessary resources in it. This is why I feel so much better using opensource software wherever possible. Maby they lack features, maby not everything works fine. But at least it is highly probable that with enough developers working on a project, that telemetry is minimized to a bare minimum or even eliminated. And when it is not, people make it transparent. So with open source I am very likely to install what I want to install. And with closed source I can only trust the developers, they built the product with best intentions. Proof can never be deilvered until the opposite is shown to the public.