Soon you won't be able to log on to the Internet without a Microsoft online account. The age verification systems that most countries are putting in place will oblige most applications in order to be compliant to confirm your age and to do that you will have to have a Microsoft account linked to your machine.
The video below on YouTube is technical but explains very well why it will soon become impossible to bypass the system since it is based on the TPM (Trusted Platform Module), a hardware, not a software that every new machine must possess in order to be able to run Windows 11.
If you are already running a Linux based operating system, you may be immune for a while but this probably won't last long since one by one most applications will stop working on Linux, unless "Linux" implements a similar scheme to Microsoft which by design is impossible.
So what should you do? Well, most people will do exactly nothing and will comply with the new requirement, saying goodbye to privacy. Was it that important to start with?
I did try to install Linux Ubuntu that I have been using for almost 15 years now on some of my friends computers. It usually lasted a week during which they enjoyed the new features and ease of use of Ubuntu. Then about a week later, they discovered that an "essential" application wasn't working with Linux. I would show them an alternative which invariably was dismissed as less convenient or incompatible with another software. And lo, requested to de-install Linux and revert to Windows immediately.
TPM - The Microsoft Choke Point - Age Verification and Identity Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzV3eP1l6i4
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