Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.
Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.
Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.
Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?
Tim Cook sucking up to Trump was a huge letdown for me, too. One would think he’d be against a homophobic fascist as a world leader considering the fact that he’s openly gay, but whatever. Kind of going against his own interests, in many ways, making himself look bad in the eyes of his shareholders and customers…
I still think they make a solid product regardless of anything else, kind of like how the Tesla Powerwall is a really good powerwall but their cars are shit.
Can’t beat a Linux server though, that’s always been true.