I’d like to say that I have a similar story here, but I skipped the Windows/IBM-PC phase and went straight from TRS-80 to the very first Macintosh. This all fe

I’d like to say that I have a similar story here, but I skipped the Windows/IBM-PC phase and went straight from TRS-80 to the very first Macintosh. This all feels like a betrayal of the slightly rebellious, iconoclastic attitudes of the early Apple days. But untangling my family from this web of lock-in? Oy. You want to switch to Linux? My spouse, maybe. My 14 y/o, never. And even if I were to succeed, I would have a new full-time job as household IT help desk. For every person who cares about avoiding surveillance capitalism, ads, and distractions, there are ten thousand who shrug their shoulders and keep scrolling.