Subj : Re: Computer operating system of choice?
To   : Greenlfc
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Feb 08 2022 14:22:35

 Gr> Depending on how granular you want to get, there are a few more options
 Gr> you might want to include in your polling (or you might want to have a
 Gr> follow-up), and I think the reasons will be telling.
 Gr> 
 Gr> For example, I know lots of Mac people who are very competent devops
 Gr> types that like having a supported *nix-like base, where everything
 Gr> (allegedly) "just works" on pretty hardware.  Those folks chose Mac for
 Gr> a very different reason than the folks that don't want to worry about
 Gr> little details like where the power button is.
 Gr> 
 Gr> I also know folks that like and run Linux because they're cheap and it
 Gr> runs better on low-end hardware.  They'd rather run Windows, but there's
 Gr> no way they're shelling out that kind of money.
 Gr> 
 Gr> If you head down the *nix rabbit hole you've got everything from the
 Gr> cheap SOBs, to the hardcore privacy activists, to folks who make a
 Gr> religion over what open source license you use, to the ones paranoid
 Gr> about government tracking.  Your PopOS or Mint user is very different
 Gr> from the OpenBSD user.
 Gr> 
 Gr> To answer your initial inquiry: I use Linux when I have a choice.  Qubes
 Gr> is my daily driver since I'm in the "privacy activist" and "paranoid
 Gr> about the gov't" camps. :)
 Gr> 

Good point, I assumed people would explain their choice.  It is the reasoning
I find more interesting than the choice itself.  Why people follow a mainstream choice isn't interesting, it is why people go for alternatives that is.  I figured people that use BBS's are those seeking something different.  I briefly looked at Qubes, and it seems interesting, though I don't think I fully grok it yet.

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