28 years of Linux at home and about 20 of them with full linux (ie, no windows at all). I feel sooooo great. - I update when I want to (but admitedly, I have t

28 years of Linux at home and about 20 of them with full linux (ie, no windows at all). I feel sooooo great. - I update when I want to (but admitedly, I have to understand what each lib is about; not for the end user) - I don't feel constantly baby-sitted - Nobody pushes his "latest new version that I must try unless I tell I don't want to" - the window manager just does the job - when I want to understand what happens, I can definitely look in the code, on the web, etc. - there's a community of people like me :-) but that's true, now and then, there's this tricky config stuff I want. Nothing fancy, but certainly out of reach for regular users, such as : making the sound mono; fixing grub 'cos debian's update screwed it; installing stuff which is not in the repo, fixing KDE's theme install gone wrong,... But now, to me it's more of a choice : either you get advertisment and a real feeling of being screwed versus sometimes there's something tricky to fix... (and 28 years ago, that choice didn't exist. It was either an almost working Windows versus 3 months of ./configure;make install until the go*amn sound card could play something... such a long way)