I just switched over during the holidays because I got tired of my cpu and ram usage being so high. My friends and I also have this theory that isn’t a theory that if you delay a Windows update long enough, it will force a crash to force the update. I just put my PC to sleep, and it will force a crash every so often and every time, Windows runs an update upon start up. Anyway I’m loving running Mint now.

Started? I switched to Linux over 20 years ago because corporate software was already garbage.

Edit. And I mean that litterally.

My business was being fucked by license requirements, forced rules about “seats” eg install on only one computer. The introduction of what then was server side data harvesting (which we now call the cloud). The OS was starting anti user patterns.

I started my own server. I could X forward to all my field crews the apps they needed instead of making them come into the office. One server replaced 5 computers. I hosted my own email. My desktop was Mine.

I kicked out all the corporate crap and we just used our own, thanks to Linux.