Linux Is Free If You Don't Value Your Time

I have the opposite experience. I spend less time managing and fixing computers of people that upgraded to GNU/Linux. It just runs more stable and does not clog up over time needing a reinstall to actually get it back to normal. Also if something goes wrong it is much easier to diagnose and fix problems remotely with GNU/Linux. So yeah GNU/Linux is also much closer to free when it comes to time needed to keep it running.

I have spent far too much time trying and failing to get Linux to sync its clock from the internet, out of a stubborn refusal to accept defeat, for me to entertain the thought that it's usable to the average person.

I moved from Windows to Ubuntu in 2020. I have spent less time fiddling with Ubuntu than I did Windows. I think this attitude is out of date.

Windows is closed source, full of ads and telemetry, and increasingly user hostile.

MacOS is a mostly closed source, expensive, user-condescending walled garden.

Linux, BSDs, and free / open source operating systems give the user freedom and control over their computing experience:

https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57

Let me help you out ... I wrote this 10 years ago - https://antipaucity.com/2013/06/04/this-is-not-the-year-of-t...

And it's as true today as it was then

Five comments so far, and literally none of you bothered to watch MO's actual video.

He is mocking the phrase, not agreeing with it.

On the contrary, it is more free than macOS or Windows if I value my time. Because nobody else can fix the time and quality to answer support questions.

Within Linux there is also the Windows-like subsection of Ubuntu (a huge timesink), compared to the unix-like subsections of arch or fedora/redhat.