...you know?

The fucking judgmental nature of the open source community? It isn't doing anybody any favors. You think I wanted to invite Windows back into my life? You think I chose to put up with all the locked-out Apple bullshit? Do you think most of us are walking around in Apple jackets or Microsoft hats? Do you have any evidence that we give the first fuck about the operating system beyond the shit we can run on it?

'cuz lemme tell ya - I'd be linux fuckin' everywhere if the software that ran on it wasn't abject janky toy shit. Fact of the matter is, some of us need audio editors better than Audacity, picture editors better than Gimp, word processors and spreadsheets better than Open Office or some combination of all of the above and fuckin'A, my friend, I know you guys are loyal to a fault over your Fisher Price My First Image Editor but some of us work for a living.

I've got plugins that cost a thousand dollars. They run in applications that cost four. Would I run them on Linux? yer damn skippy I would. But that's not an option. And it never will be so long as the open source community keeps insisting that just because your needs are served by Linux Mint mine will be.

I've got linux. The way I keep my (evil empire) Windows DAW from catching the sniffles every time i have to download something is I've got a Mint VM that it touches the world with. you know what? Even fucking Thunderbird is a piece of shit on Linux. Wish it weren't. Wish I could blow that window away and live out my computing life in beautiful open-source bliss. But I can't 'cuz I got bills to pay.

I've got a $1200 server chip sitting in a server chassis with like 2 M.2 drives and a thousand dollar sound card and like five drives and a $500 video card and the most expensive thing on my desktop?

there's a good $30k worth of licenses on that little fucker and it won't even show up in Linux. To Linux, that's not a key, it's a particularly retarded low-storage USB mass storage device.

So while I admire the passion? And I know you come from a place of civil rights or Maker Manifesto or whatever, kindly leave the slavery imagery out of it because for those of us who actually have to get shit done? Your choices are not available to us.