While computer hardware is more ubiquituous than ever, actual usage of general purpose computing is vanishingly small. I had no idea how bad it was until recent

While computer hardware is more ubiquituous than ever, actual usage of general purpose computing is vanishingly small. I had no idea how bad it was until recently. Linux and "open source" are just buzzwords. Their use should be taken as a sign that people are computing freely. Even programmers who use "open source" software don't actually have complete control (see the furore over Microsoft changing the colour of an icon in a popular IDE). Corporate proxies today are obscenely intrusive and if anyone even knows what a "root CA" is they have no idea what it's used for. Many places get people to install them on to personal devices and of course most people do as instructed. This is the environment in which most people do their "computing" and it's all they know.