A lot. And it’s not limited to money.
Netflix: The best series are getting stopped produced or go into the shitter. And then they rised the price for non-ad versions.
Reddit: Deleted my account when they stopped giving API away (RIF my beloved). And now I can’t even read threads without an account. (Also: yay, finally made it here!)
Facebook: Deleted my account years ago already and not looking bad. Bad and confusing algorithms, spreading of misinformation and conspiracies, fake globetrotter, stealing and selling personal informations to advertisers and whatnot… I don’t need that in my life.
Twitter/X: It already got slightly bad, but Musks takeover was like 5 of the 10 nails in the coffin. And seeing how quickly it went down… Good riddance.
YouTube Premium: I thought I’d give something back to content creators for all the years of entertainment. But Googles fight against smaller creators, Ad-Blocker and apparently it’s own user base made my back down, cancel my subscription and use Firefox instead. It’s bad that the only choice is an Android or Apple Phone, the choice between a rock and a hard place.
Microsoft: okay, I didn’t fully transition. I took my gaming notebook and installed Linux CachyOS on it to try things out. It works great, and It feels better that using windows. But I guess for my PC, I’ll do a dual boot or something first.
About the microsoft thing : you’re absolutely right. Dual boot all you want, don’t go too fast and take your time. If you switch in five years so be it, if it’s sooner all the better. Don’t be afraid to distrohop to find what’s best for you. Oftentimes you start with a distro and end up with something else.
I started with Ubuntu in ~2006, never got to get my modem working with eagle-usb and had to abandon ship. Went back in 2009 with Fecora then OpenSuSE : was quite thrilled because it was way better than Win7 lite on an eeePC equivalent. Then switched PCs and against all odds really liked Windows 8.
I never quite got around Win 10 when it came out and slowly started looking at Linux again. Went through Zorin (best for starters!) then Mint, Debian, Ubuntu again, Fedora again, Pop!_OS, then quite find an interest in Manjaro but shit broke too often for me so I said “fuck it, it relies on Arch so how hard could it be?” (Spoilers : really hard when you try working with btrfs and LUKS and you’re quite a novice).
Finally I tried NixOS and thought that anyone who got time for that shit ain’t got life outside of that so went back to Arch.
Anyways I use arch btw and thanks for listening to my TED talk.
A lot. And it’s not limited to money. Netflix: The best series are getting stopped produced or go into the shitter. And then they rised the price for non-ad versions. Reddit: Deleted my account when they stopped giving API away (RIF my beloved). And now I can’t even read threads without an account. (Also: yay, finally made it here!) Facebook: Deleted my account years ago already and not looking bad. Bad and confusing algorithms, spreading of misinformation and conspiracies, fake globetrotter, stealing and selling personal informations to advertisers and whatnot… I don’t need that in my life. Twitter/X: It already got slightly bad, but Musks takeover was like 5 of the 10 nails in the coffin. And seeing how quickly it went down… Good riddance. YouTube Premium: I thought I’d give something back to content creators for all the years of entertainment. But Googles fight against smaller creators, Ad-Blocker and apparently it’s own user base made my back down, cancel my subscription and use Firefox instead. It’s bad that the only choice is an Android or Apple Phone, the choice between a rock and a hard place. Microsoft: okay, I didn’t fully transition. I took my gaming notebook and installed Linux CachyOS on it to try things out. It works great, and It feels better that using windows. But I guess for my PC, I’ll do a dual boot or something first.
About the microsoft thing : you’re absolutely right. Dual boot all you want, don’t go too fast and take your time. If you switch in five years so be it, if it’s sooner all the better. Don’t be afraid to distrohop to find what’s best for you. Oftentimes you start with a distro and end up with something else.
I started with Ubuntu in ~2006, never got to get my modem working with eagle-usb and had to abandon ship. Went back in 2009 with Fecora then OpenSuSE : was quite thrilled because it was way better than Win7 lite on an eeePC equivalent. Then switched PCs and against all odds really liked Windows 8.
I never quite got around Win 10 when it came out and slowly started looking at Linux again. Went through Zorin (best for starters!) then Mint, Debian, Ubuntu again, Fedora again, Pop!_OS, then quite find an interest in Manjaro but shit broke too often for me so I said “fuck it, it relies on Arch so how hard could it be?” (Spoilers : really hard when you try working with btrfs and LUKS and you’re quite a novice).
Finally I tried NixOS and thought that anyone who got time for that shit ain’t got life outside of that so went back to Arch.
Anyways I use arch btw and thanks for listening to my TED talk.