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Hey now! I can honestly say Microsoft has never done that with any of my computers!
(Why yes, they do all run Linux. How did you know?)
If any of your Linux machines use SystemD, ~~then Microsoft has done that~~ then there’s something to be aware of with those machines. SystemD has a global system ID that can be used like the Windows GDID apparently.
Edit: not MS
Source?
See discussion below. I’m making it up obviously