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What is wrong in making choices after ethical reasons? I want to know, because this is what drives me. Being flexible on principles is acting against your (cor
by jraph 7y ago
What is wrong in making choices after ethical reasons? I want to know, because this is what drives me.
Being flexible on principles is acting against your (core) values, and making compromises is not always even the most pragmatic thing to do. Not saying you should never make compromises. First, nobody is perfect. Second, everybody has their own thresholds and this is fine.
You say that you are borderline of using Linux on the desktop. Surely you have a motivation behind that? You need to answer the question you raise at the end of your comment before switching. Switching OSes can be a bit disruptive and it takes time to adapt. It takes will. You should not change for the sake of changing. Here are hints though:
- you think that free software is the way forward. People should control their digital life.
- you think that open source is the way forward. It's just a way more efficient way to build software, frees us from perpetually reinventing the wheel by building "common goods" and enables meaningful and powerful collective work, even across companies.
- you like Unix. You think that it is a nice way to organise and design an operating system.
- you like package managers on Linux. apt install stuff, or click stuff in the store, and boom, it is installed. No bullshit, everything is free, no demo versions.
- no tracking, no ads, no hidden shenanigans, no need to have a Microsoft or Apple account to have updates.
- you like having the right and the possibility to modify or study any piece of software you use.
- you like a fast boot and virus free environment.
- you like being close to your development environment.
- you find KDE/GNOME beautiful.
- you like the customization the ecosystem enables.
- you are curious and like to explore new stuff.
- ...?
To each their own. What's more, I find Linux practical, but not everybody does and there are downsides to use Linux instead of a more mainstream OS (app support, help, ...) :-)