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See, that version of me is something. Bet he makes more money, too. Probably gets paid by Microsoft.
For the record, I'm typing this on Firefox, which is my main browser on all OSs, Android included. It's actually perfectly fine. I'd like more competition outside of Chromium, and I keep a Chrome install mostly to keep the Google Workspace stuff I do for work separate from my personal browsing, but... yeah, no, use Firefox, there are no downsides. Well, except the lack of tab grouping. They should steal that one already.
And man, I've been whining about Microsoft since the Windows 95 launch. I'm on the record with Microsoft support telling them that OneDrive is the single biggest liability for my business and the piece of software that has cost me the most money in my career. The moment I find a forum built entirely about praising Microsoft's software as a fanboying collective you will see me point those out on the daily because come on.
But there isn't one of those popping up on my feed. There is a Linux one, though, where people seem to be on different degrees of denial about the reality of the situation, so I sometimes point that out. Because man, do I wish the Linux community made different decisions so we could have a more viable desktop OS alternative for general use.
But yes, I am the anti-evangelist. On every angle. No evangelism here, in any meaning of the word. If you're an evangelist of any persuasion for anything and you're not getting paid, you should stop. I'd much rather look at things honestly. Even the things I like. It's both better for you and a lot more fun.
There is absolutely Zero things wrong with encouraging Linux use and a million things wrong with contributing to the reams of misinformation floating around about it. So expect pushback every single time. I see you're getting a lot of it. Seems to be the goal.
I don't know about pushback, but I'm glad to have a conversation about this, so I suppose it IS the goal. I don't think most people posting that they have been happily using Linux by default for years are doing so in bad faith at all, but that's exactly why comparing notes and a shift in perspective are useful here. If everybody was just trolling and memeing about it, then I'd be much less inclined to engage.
And, honestly, besides you being kinda mad and unreasonable (and again, you're not that bad for Internet standards), everybody else is being super respectful, engaged with the issue and fairly open minded. I have no complaints.
I object to the misinformation bit, though. Everything I've posted is either first hand, real experience or easily verifiable.
It's not hard to scroll and read. I've seen several people calling you out on this and the downvotes also speak for themselves
I mean... the original post seems to have more upvotes than downvotes, so...
Not that I gauge the value of a post by its upvotes. Sure, most of the people responding are disagreeing, but (besides you) they're mostly being cogent, respectful and polite. I don't have a problem with that.
I read a lot of your responses. Each time someone brings up an obviously true good point, you sidestep it and blather on with some tautology. It's clearly frustrating for everyone here and it's not just me. Some of their points were rock solid enough that you didn't even see a way to troll and you opted not to respond. And that's pretty funny to me.
With me, I've been verbose enough that you find something (as irrelevant as possible) to latch onto and distract from how over the top wrong you are about 99% of your "logic". It's obvious dude. There are enough other people pointing out what you're doing that you cannot pretend it's not happening. You're not the only one who can read.