CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@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.

@enbypirate On "left-wing" liberals: They might even be perfect little trans allys... but their strong belief in institutions will end up hurting us either way: They set up little gender courthouses with little gender judges, juries, cops, and executioners. They make gender affirming care harder to get without their consent and they criminalize the alternatives. Justifying this with: "protecting the children" or "integrity of women's sports".

I personally think that EU is pretty resistant to USA -style authoritarianism and that the general trend is that things are getting better. But there are daily setbacks.