[ProgressingAmerica]

There's also #8: No more of you funding woke companies. They ought to feel some economic hardship also.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[SecondAmendment]

> There's also #8: No more of you funding woke companies. They ought to feel some economic hardship also.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

The developers who work on Linux make Apple/Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Amazon look like ultra MAGA right wingers....

[Ken522]

#9: You can run old games you liked when you were young ....

[dayglored]

tech ping

[rellic]

I own about 6 Comupters.
4 are Linux/Windows dual boot.
One is windows only and one is Linux only.
I have a Computer science degree.
I’m fluent in Mac, but dislike the company and the expense
of their products.
I don’t like Windows because it is fundamentally
a piss poor operating system design. Plus the guy that stole DOS and made all that money is trying to kill off a good portion of Americans and the world. Name is Bill Gates
even his wife can’t trust him.
Linux is a challenge for most people because it can be complex.
But you CANNOT beat the price.
I’m a cheap guy.
SUDO.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’ve been running Linux on my computers for 5 years. I retired the first one when it was physically broken, but it was 8 years old. It was a bit of a challenge to set this computer as a dual boot, but the instructions to do it were pretty clear.

[BullwinkleMoose]

I have four laptops running Linux. Two (Windows Vista originally) run Lubuntu, and two (Windows 7) run Ubuntu. Updates are easy and the Linux software comes packaged with Libre Office (like Microsoft Office), Thunderbird E-Mail, and Firefox for internet browsing. I installed Brave to replace Firefox. I have never had to drop to the command line to do anything.

If you have an old computer, install a version of Linux and play with it. It will breathe life into an old computer and cost you nothing.

[Openurmind]

Excellent article, thank you!

[ShadowAce]

[CatOwner]

I have one Windows 10 PC, one Linux PC, and my laptop on Linux (both Linux machines with Mint). The latter work pretty well for most things, but I have a great number of apps and batch file streams that will take some time converting over, assuming I can find suitable replacements.

The Win 10 PC has been has turned off updates to Win 11 (via registry). Once Win 10 is EOL sometime in 2025, that will be the last active Windows machine I will own. At worse, I will keep Win 10 around for those applications I can't replace, but it will be offline from the Internet.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...you know you will receive free updates until your computer physically falls apart or becomes too underpowered to do what you need it to do.

I just retired my mid-2014 MacBook Pro because numerous parts were failing simultaneously -- screen, keyboard, power connector, and a USB port. It still had all the speed I needed, but fixing everything would have cost well over half of a new machine. Then it reached the end of the OS life and that clinched it. All eight years I got free OS updates. I figure eight years out of a computer is darn good. And it is about as simple to use as a toaster, so I saved hundreds or thousands of my hours not having to tinker in the guts of the OS to keep it running.

[daniel1212]

I have tried every major and many minor Linux distros (and Mint is daily used daily on my old computer by a brother, just for email and the Internet) and I have Puppy on another, but I have concluded that Linux is simply not worth trying to achieve a like degree of enhanced customization and efficiency available for Windows, though that can change. And then there is the issue of illegal use of certain multimedia codecs.

And there are many to choose from:

[Lockbox]

7. Linux Nudges You to Keep Your Data Local

Many apps have transitioned from living on your desktop to living on someone else's server. These web apps are easy to charge a subscription for.

Linux Makes Good Financial Sense

How about it’s my data, not something others can collect to spy and sell. Cloud computing is for people and companies who want to risk all. If you don’t think your government and competitors aren’t reading your data, well won’t you be surprised!

[Pollard]

I haven’t paid a dime for PC software or OS in 20 years. I but off-lease business model Thinkpads. Currently running a $280 Thinkpad W530 - Intel 17 - 8 core - 2.70GHz -16 GiB RAM. Kubuntu 22.04 LTS

When it’s time to replace this one, I’ll probably go with w Thinkpad P series, the successor business model to the W series. Thinkpads get along very well with Linux. Some even come with Linux pre-installed.