If by disparity you mean sometimes Windows is better and sometimes Linux is better. I have one of those GPUs. Give it a try before you slam it. Valve has thrown so much money into Proton that support is amazing compared to when I tried a decade ago.

Google does it so much I’ve had trouble finding favorite places because they’d rather show an ad that overlaps it.

It already has ads. Those businesses it highlights for no reason at all when you’re scrolling around.

It’s fine. Not sure where you heard it’s terrible.

Speaking for the US, major universities may be there for research, but they are a small portion of the mass of schools across the country.

People have mostly been getting degrees to get a good job since at least shortly after WW2. It’s silly to pretend people are going massively in debt without the expectation of a return on that investment.

Nothing against people learning for the joy of learning, but I absolutely hold schools accountable for not making job prospects clear when most of the students are both young and ignorant of the world.