Indeed. There's a stereotype that commies use Linux for a reason. (Which causes a lot of trouble in the broad political tent that the FOSS world inherently is, but your average not that technical anti-communist nut job doesn't know about it. My dad would question my brother three times about his potential interest in this stuff before he'd think to ask the Stalinist who obviously only has a little stuffed penguin on her purse zipper because they don't make teddy bears that size.) I'd like to say I got into it initially as a political protest action, or that I was fed up with Winblows and its privacy and security issues, and those things are true, I even got distro recommendations from a commie site a lot like this place, in a political community rather than a technology one, but honestly, I'd gotten hyperfixated on Linux and I had to mess around with a few distros myself to satiate it, and if you've known a few neurodivergent people, you know that some kinds of hyperfixations just get worse when you try to just ignore it and do nothing about it.

And then the mystery and hyperfixation was gone, but I still like Linux better than Winblows. It's just a better choice for me. It's an opsec decision that costs me nothing and a political protest against corporate monopoly that I enjoy and doesn't feel like Complicated Party Work or something out of Lenin's pamphlets, it's just making a choice I'd prefer anyway. Sometimes I really like the "it's about FREEDOM!" attitude that comes from the commies and the right-libertarians who use it equally, sometimes that feels like you people are all ten years old in a bad way, but I get it and it's neat. Plus, I get a genuinely more pleasant computer experience out of it. More personal benefit than I get out of most things I do for political reasons or nebulous "freedom".

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