Starting your Linux journey because corporate software has become intolerable

I just switched over during the holidays because I got tired of my cpu and ram usage being so high. My friends and I also have this theory that isn’t a theory that if you delay a Windows update long enough, it will force a crash to force the update. I just put my PC to sleep, and it will force a crash every so often and every time, Windows runs an update upon start up. Anyway I’m loving running Mint now.

Started? I switched to Linux over 20 years ago because corporate software was already garbage.

Edit. And I mean that litterally.

My business was being fucked by license requirements, forced rules about “seats” eg install on only o computer. The introduction of what then was server side data harvesting (which we now call the cloud). The OS was starting anti user patterns.

I started my own server. I could choose forward to all my field crews the apps they needed instead of making them come into the office. One server replaced 5 computers. I hosted my own email. My desktop was Mine.

I kicked out all the corporate crap and we just used our own, thanks to Linux.