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Title I do not want a Microsoft account. Microsoft doesn't need any more info about me than they already have. Thanks

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Same. Linux for more than a decade. It's been great. Runs all my games, my work stuff, and anything else.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 9 points 4 weeks ago

100% with you.

I'm 50+, I'm not a geek and for the last 35 years or so I mostly was an happy Apple customer/user (I only used Windows for a couple games and, recently, on a PC laptop). I was happy using Apple and even earned decent money doing so but, a few years ago, I grew tired of seeing Apple acting like a dick — more and more greenwashing while at the same time making it impossible to upgrade or fix hardware, and then they released the turdiest keyboard ever created on this planet (yep, looking at you Butterfly keyboard) and insisted on using it for years, despite so many of us complaining. So, I decided it was time to try something else. Windows did not impress me much. Then, I tried Linux and was so impressed how simple it was to use (I don't do fancy stuff on my computer, I write) and how I could (more or less simply, but quite often it's simple) tweak it to do exactly what I wanted, and how nice it was to run even on very old hardware (making for less e-waste, which is a good thing), I was sold. Plus, I won't lie, the whole freedom and privacy considerations, the GNU philosophy, were becoming an important factor too as I realized how we were increasingly deprived of those.

I still own a Mac today but, unless there is some kind of revolution at Apple's HQ, I don't see myself buying a new Mac after this one dies of old age. My main computer is now my Linux machine. I keep the Mac out of laziness and habits... Also because I would miss one specific app: Scrivener, a writing app I've been using probably for the last 15 years, if not more. And, yep, I've tried many alternatives available under Linux and they don't cut it for me.