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My computer is my "work station", so I don't want anything to change how it works without my asking for it.

Only FOSS has given me that so far. With the others, I inevitably run into "interface I'm used to changes without my consent".

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I think that's only true if you never update your FOSS software, which the FOSS community in general seems to think is akin to skinning puppies. Otherwise it seems to me that FOSS developers are just as prone to changing interfaces for the sake of change as everyone else.

It's true for many projects, and I usually stop using them after it happens for the first time. Eventually, some software remains, against odds, stable. If not in the defaults, then after I apply my text-based, human-readable, source-matchable configuration files.

Also, I recently found Chicago 95 and am very pleased with the results of that five-minute shellscript :D

It's the only option that frees you from the effects of someone else's greed.

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