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While I understand your point of view, I think you are over-simplifying. I use Linux, macos, and Windows. I have specific reasons for using each for a specific

by Osiris 3y ago

While I understand your point of view, I think you are over-simplifying. I use Linux, macos, and Windows. I have specific reasons for using each for a specific use case. I use Linux for work because I appreciate the ability to customize my interface exactly how I need it. But it's also a lot of work to get many different programs configured and working together. I use macOS for iOS development and for my personal laptop when traveling because the battery life on the Mac is easily 5x what my Linux laptop gets. I use Windows for gaming because I have Game Pass and I have no desire to spend hours or days fiddling with Linux to see if it's possible to run games with AntiCheat and other stupid DRM. So I have a Windows computer just for gaming. I have no desire to pigeonhole myself into one system for purely ideological reasons. I consider myself pragmatic.

neilv 3y ago
> I have no desire to pigeonhole myself into one system for purely ideological reasons. I consider myself pragmatic. "Purely ideological reasons" aren't the only reasons to avoid MS. I could talk for hours about pragmatic reasons for avoiding them, and have. The Web has copious information about reasons to avoid them, for decades. Given this, still dismissing it as "purely ideological reasons", and suggesting how MS can be a part of this healthy breakfast, might as well be PR handling on their behalf.
- psjs 3y ago
  As Zizek would say, you have to be most wary when the ideological subjects start saying they are acting without ideology.