10+ years on Linux, absolutely worth it once you get the hang of it. Although it takes some time.

Nobody asked me about that. I’ve been contributing to projects for the past year more than ever. Gave up on my job in order to open a business, plenty of free time and I’m just grinding contributions, from gaming projects such as WoW emulators, to time trackers, network nodes, IDE plugins and libraries which needed small fixes.

Actually, ever since LLMs, pumping code for free is way way way more easier nowadays.

Its sad that microslop and crap os have a monopoly over operating systems, it takes a little bit of skill to break from those shithole operating systems. Been fully on linux for 10+ years now, its much easier nowadays to make the switch but it still takes some time.

Big corpos will always drain your privacy for their profit. Never trust that they will respect it if you “unbloat” or deny some cookies.