Personally I like to use an operating system that doesn't crash. I don't want to have to worry about how many programs I am running, and if my OS will have a problem with this. This is why I stopped using Windows. I would hardly have switched to Linux if I had to deal with a distrubution that I have to make all sorts of modifications to just to have it run properly. I simply don't have the time to figure out what is going on behind my screen. My computer is an important tool for me, and occasionaly a fun toy, but it is not my main concern or interest in life. I neither have the time, nor the desire to understand my operating system. Does this mean I should have to use a sucky product?
Where privacy is concerned, our government is becoming as bad as the Soviet Union or China; the policies of this government, from a bird's-eye view, see this country falling more and more toward a socialist society. This is troubling to me, and to most people I know.
You seem to have a poor idea of what Socialism is. Neither the Soviet Union nor China were socialist countries, they were communists. Without getting into debating the ideal of either, the two are very different in the way they have been practiced. Socialism doesn't imply that privacy is being compromised. In fact, socialist countries such as the Scandinavian countries have much more respect for your privacy that the US government does. It would be more accurate to claim that the US government, with respect to privacy, is gravitating towards fascism than socialism or communism.
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Personally I like to use an operating system that doesn't crash. I don't want to have to worry about how many programs I am running, and if my OS will have a problem with this. This is why I stopped using Windows. I would hardly have switched to Linux if I had to deal with a distrubution that I have to make all sorts of modifications to just to have it run properly. I simply don't have the time to figure out what is going on behind my screen. My computer is an important tool for me, and occasionaly a fun toy, but it is not my main concern or interest in life. I neither have the time, nor the desire to understand my operating system. Does this mean I should have to use a sucky product?
You seem to have a poor idea of what Socialism is. Neither the Soviet Union nor China were socialist countries, they were communists. Without getting into debating the ideal of either, the two are very different in the way they have been practiced. Socialism doesn't imply that privacy is being compromised. In fact, socialist countries such as the Scandinavian countries have much more respect for your privacy that the US government does. It would be more accurate to claim that the US government, with respect to privacy, is gravitating towards fascism than socialism or communism.