If you're a Windows user, are you planning to move to another OS? IF so, which one?
Desktop Linux sucks, but at least it's not pulling the crap MS pulls. I like Linux Mint. I also use PopOS and am moving away from it to LM with XFCE on all my machines.
I admit that I will miss Microsoft Office (I currently have an Office 365 subscription), but after reading about the latest changes made to Photoshop’s TOS, I’m not confident about the future of other SaSS providers, and I’d like to transition to FOSS tools that respect my privacy, even if these tools aren’t as feature-rich as their proprietary counterparts. Plus, in the case I need Microsoft Office or other proprietary tools, I have an old 2013 Mac Pro that I could boot up, and I have a perpetual license for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.
I’m increasingly concerned about the future of personal computing. It seems that there is a trend toward increasingly locked-down devices that serve the vendor rather than the user.
I feel like tech companies are constricting their future talent pools by doing this. But maybe they want to kill their future competition too. You already get university students now who don't know what files and folders are, which they need before moving into the basics of navigating a command line or source tree.
Usable and accessible computers are great. But locking them down to the point of eliminating user agency and learning seems really shortsighted.
Do recommend.
I'll love to see the day when I can ditch it for gaming too, but most games I play are multiplayer, and anti-cheats generally don't like Linux
And thats my beef every time I switch to Linux, I come back to Windows because the apps in Windows are there and it just works. I used Linux Mint for a year, but it was a lot of finding similar but not quite as good apps as what I would use on Windows.