*looks at Samsung Android phone*

*looks at Debian Linux laptop*

it's the friendliness, maybe.

like, corporate operating systems have already decided who they want you to be and they coerce and cajole you to be that. do you want to uninstall Google Maps? well, it won't let you. the most you can do is revert to an old version. it turns using a computer into a kind of fight.

linux doesn't ask you to be someone else. it is what it is and it works how it works, but adapting to linux isn't adapting to what megacorporations want from you, it's just … adapting to how the tech is shaped. when it's opinionated, it's opinionated like a vegetarian refusing to eat meat, not like a contractor knocking on your door to sell you new windows - opinionated about itself, not you. and that means using a computer isn't any kind of fight.

and that means we can like computers more.

is our guess, anyway.