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[glitchghost@retro-gaiden.com]

@itsfoss open source, free and I can customize the UI and feel to make it like something out of a movie or retro like old computers I grew up with as a kid

[miro_collas@masto.ai]

@itsfoss Free, open source, no ad bloat, no AI bloat, highly configurable - and it keeps getting better!

[unruly@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss

That one day I am going replace the operating system on the computer I haven't been using with Linux.

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@itsfoss

being guaranteed I can study it and change it
and not being spied on without consent.

[harbeider@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss Linux is Big Fun!

[haltncatchfire@social.vivaldi.net]

@itsfoss I love how linux is this amazing, beautiful, awesome, creative, frustrating, hard, worthwhile, intelligent thing that anyone can get invovled in. It encourages, learning, exploring, community and helps with much more. I love you linux! Thanks for being here during these challenging times.

[iwein@mas.to]

@itsfoss not being exploited by the #epsteinClass

[billisd3ad@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss it works

[ninstar@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss The ability to customize virtually anything you want.

When I was younger I used to thinker with my Windows installs all the time to get it to look and feel exactly how I wanted, but it would constantly break, it was really frustrating. Seeing other people making their own rices was how I found out about Linux.

[ramkay@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss aligns with the values i believe and espouse - open and free flow of knowledge and ideas, creative commons, somewhat a just process,

Technically competent, supported despite mainstream industry shenanigans

And now so effective and good to use with hardky much headache in file compatibility, or significant hardware incompatibility

And fun, absolutely fun (sometimes headachy) but at the end of the day i am technically better (and hopefully a better person) because i use linux.

[thezorse@hear-me.social]

@itsfoss

It's not trying to use, manipulate, or trick me.

[nitana@lgbtqia.space]

@itsfoss I love the things other commenters posted, but for me number one thing is ownership/control: Windows can just randomly decide to update, which is super annoying especially with work and school laptops... Being stuck staring at an update bar while you have a test in the opposite end of the campus is stressful.

Also, I had an older laptop which needed some specific drivers to run smoothly. Windows kept overwriting my drivers, >w< had to change the drivers several times in a month.

Linux respects your time and choices.

[ramkay@mastodon.social]

@haltncatchfire @itsfoss lovely

[fast_blast@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss freedom

[rhizomancer@todon.eu]

@itsfoss it's a door to learn more about how you engage with the technologies surrounding you. We"ve reached a point where we take Microsoft, Google and the others as the default. Having Linux there is a way to reinterpret your relationship with the digital overall

[renanlecaro@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss I don't need to air-gap linux for it to be usable. Looking at you windows

[liberloebi@digitalcourage.social]

@itsfoss it exists

[simondeutschl@troet.cafe]

@itsfoss
That it's source code is open. And that I can do with it whatever I want, it doesn't annoy me with AI and it runs smoothly on my 11 year old computer.

[t@piaille.fr]

@itsfoss no bloat and i can run it on a potato

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss
It returned ownership of my computers to me.
I can choose an appropriate distro for each computer I own.
I am not only allowed to, but actually encouraged to, tinker with the inner workings of Linux.
I choose which software I want to support financially.
I am not supporting a morally bankrupt company.
The community rocks!