No worries about the ping :-) I'll add ShadowAce since he's the prime mover for Linux / Open-Source stuff on FR.
I no longer have a "preferred" operating system. I have used Linux, Windows, and MacOS constantly and interchangeably all day at work and evenings for personal stuff, for so many years, that I now move between them seamlessly without even thinking about it. They all run simultaneously, side-by-side, mostly in VMs. Hardware is mostly Apple and HP, because those are the most trouble-free.
I'm annoyed and even angered by what has happened to the tech industry as a result of social and governmental pressures. I started doing hands-on computers with a PDP-8 and a Kim-1 in the '70s, so I think in 50 years I've earned my right to an opinion.
But I have given up worrying about whether Microsoft, or Apple, or Canonical, or RedHat, or whoever, is messing around with regard to DEI or any other virtue-signalling crap. I care in the abstract, of course, and it does pi$$ me off, but I can't waste my time fussing with it any more. I'm 72, probably only have a handful of productive years left, and I still have lots of work to do.
“ I’m 72, probably only have a handful of productive years left, ”
Clint Eastwood, David Attenborough…and others are well into their 90s and still enthusiastically starting new projects.
No worries about the ping :-) I'll add ShadowAce since he's the prime mover for Linux / Open-Source stuff on FR. I consider you, ShadowAce, and Swordmaker to be the Father, Son and Holy Ghost of computer threads here. I am not sure why there have been few Apple threads lately. The new iPhone 16 is due right around labor day. There were a few threads on the Vision Pro early in the years. Maybe the Biden economy makes it difficult to sell a refined product for $2500 that is very similar to products that are currently selling for around $200. I don't know?
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As far as youthfulness goes... I think your age puts you in the middle of the pack around here.