I think it’s safe to say that the Lemmy user base trends a bit more “computer nerd” than the general public. So we generally have more people that already use Linux, and more people that could reasonably benefit from switching.

Plus of course moving off of windows is one of the most effective ways to show your displeasure with Microsoft.

CaNceL cUlTuRe!!

You aren’t supposed to do that, assuming you’re the one pumping gas. Gas stations are a bad place to generate static electricity, lol.

The “try to convert” thing sounds like the marketing & sales division of the church. People can’t join your church if they don’t even know about it.

And both being annoying, of course.

Yep, there were times when I was having a good time rooting and even overclocking my Android phone. Automating stuff with good old Tasker too.

But like I said, the “app launching appliance” life is all food for me now.

Plus I have an Apple Watch and like it, and my entire family uses iPhones. So whatever ecosystem inertia/lock-in could be there, is there.

They are good products, even if they don’t have the nerdy cool factor. Each day I’m working on old C/C++ code in Linux, so having my phone be a reliable appliance instead of yet another computer to fuck around with is totally fine for me. I liked my past Android phones too though.

No carrier bloatware and very long software support.

I’m in a company that uses Microsoft stuff, but I use a lot of fedora and Linux mint in VMs. The latter is based off Ubuntu at least!

It’s actually kind of nice to be able to save the state of my VM since forced restarts are so infrequent.