I’m not angry about other people choosing what OS it is they prefer. That is their choice. As indicated in my first post, I am sick to death of Windoze. Leaving aside any politics, it annoys me no end how they try to control everything. How many hundreds of thousands of complaints must there have been of them foisting Windows 10 upon people? It was only through the ingenuity of freelance software creators that one of them designed a programme to cripple the unwanted Windows 10 update. Lots of folk in the Tech world were not happy about this underhanded trick. They also caused ‘damage’ to a lot of people’s p.c.'s. ‘Hey, why does my printer no longer work?’
For me personally, I had had enough of their silent updates or reconfigurations working in the background and then as you are about to go to bed you get an instruction telling you not to switch it off as it is updating. Like for how long? One hour? Ten hours?
I don’t want a p.c. with whistles and fancy ribbons. I use mine for basic work.
There is of course the other argument which applies equally to Apple. You buy, for example, a 160gb iPod classic only to find out that iTunes is updated so it no longer syncs. Windows the same with legacy programmes. Planned obsolescence used to be quite common, nowadays they do it the underhand way by having new OS software that will not work with old programmes. In other words: spend more money.
It’s these and more that made me switch to Linux even at my ripe old age. Enough is enough!
I enjoyed reading your post. I am certain I will find a few problems with Linux but at least I know the developers and the wider community have a different goal for people to use their system as opposed to monolithic corporations.
Yours, a convert to the light side.
p.s. I am running Mate on a 1tb drive with nothing else but Mate.