Subj : Re: Computer operating system of choice?
To   : boraxman
From : Greenlfc
Date : Mon Feb 07 2022 06:30:40

Depending on how granular you want to get, there are a few more options you might want to include in your polling (or you might want to have a follow-up), and I think the reasons will be telling.

For example, I know lots of Mac people who are very competent devops types that like having a supported *nix-like base, where everything (allegedly) "just works" on pretty hardware.  Those folks chose Mac for a very different reason than the folks that don't want to worry about little details like where the power button is.

I also know folks that like and run Linux because they're cheap and it runs better on low-end hardware.  They'd rather run Windows, but there's no way they're shelling out that kind of money.

If you head down the *nix rabbit hole you've got everything from the cheap SOBs, to the hardcore privacy activists, to folks who make a religion over what open source license you use, to the ones paranoid about government tracking.  Your PopOS or Mint user is very different from the OpenBSD user.

To answer your initial inquiry: I use Linux when I have a choice.  Qubes is my daily driver since I'm in the "privacy activist" and "paranoid about the gov't" camps. :)

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