If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesn’t mean Linux isn’t for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means you’ve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.
  1. You love giving your data away
  2. You enjoy being tracked by your operating system
  3. You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”
  4. You prefer someone else deciding what you can run
  5. You feel uncomfortable if you get to have options
  6. You’d rather battle corporate tech support
  7. You’d rather rent your software than own it
  8. You think ads belong on your desktop
  9. You love being lied to about what’s “industry standard”
  10. You like rebooting for every little update
  • ozymandias@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    actual reasons:

    1. want to use some specific program or game only available for another os
    2. lazy, dumb or afraid of computer stuff.
    3. can’t decide from 10,000 different distributions
    • vandsjov@feddit.dk
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      5 days ago

      You forgot the real actual reason: I don’t care about computer stuff. My current computer does what I want and I don’t care to switch.

      It is okay not to have the interest in computers. I could probably change the oil on my car but I don’t care and don’t want to do the work, so I don’t do it (the mechanic does).