privacy optimization - move from mac? Future internet?

[u/Abject_Cantaloupe422]

privacy optimization - move from mac? Future internet?

Hello everyone,

I'm currently in the process of optimising my privacy. My laptop is completely switched over to Linux (opensuse, have been using it alongside Windows for more than a decade).

Moving my Email from Outlook to Proton (thankfully never had Gmail)

Moving my cloud (which I really use minimally at all) to Proton Drive.

Social media - never had, never will.

There is a machine (main desktop) that is Mac OS, a M1 Mac Mini. I am thinking of replacing it with a Lenovo Tiny machine, AMD preferred (I like AMD and at least there is no Intel Management Enginge).

Would you replace the Mac Mini with a Lenovo or similar SFF or Tower PC and Linux? Or would you maximize Privacy on the Mac?

How safe is Private Relay with icloud?

How privacy safe is Mac OS in general?

I still have a minimal use for Windows (Fujitsu Document Scanner), which I plan on using with an isolated, non network connected small PC with Windows 10.

Now the second part:

With all the planning on maximizing privacy - there is a catch. In the UK it is already installed, part of the internet requires a government ID to be usable. Now if that spreads around Europe or worldwide, how affected are we? Doesn't that ruin all the effort to use a PC as private as possible?