Microsoft inducing learned helplessness

am I complicit?

Is Microsoft inducing learned helplessness via vaporizing software you download?
(among other restrictions of Microsoft)

Safety is important, I only recommend Defender for people using Windows.

However, Linux is a funnel to learning CheckSums, Signatures, even Supply-Chains!
Integrity: How to verify the cryptographic hash values of Qubes ISOs
Trust: What does it mean to “distrust the infrastructure”?

When is promoting Microsoft-serviced products an act of complicity to computer-illiteracy?
(a rhetorical question I ask myself time-to-time)