My computer means a lot to me, probably too much actually. I should be more focused on real life than the digital world I think. But the digital world is so accessible when you feel tired and have more mental energy than physical energy.
Internet is what everything revolves around these days. It's funny how the browser is "everything" on a desktop PC, but not that important at all on a smartphone where many sites have been turned into apps.
I kind of love GNU/Linux I guess (but I would like to pull the server mentality out of it). What I love about GNU/Linux is the decentralized model and the FOSS model. Everything I need to do I can do on my Linux system and it has been like that for many years. However I do need to use an Android phone to authenticate when I do banking on Linux.
I haven't really used Windows since maybe 5+ years ago. The last version I used was Windows 7. After that I lost interest in Windows despite some technical and usability improvements in more recent versions.
Linux has been a time-consuming hobby, but I should be thankful for it I guess. One question I have regarding basically all platforms is "where do we go from here?". What is left to invent? There is much polishing that needs to be done everywhere for sure. I think the work with the PC form factor can't be considered complete until all proprietary code is optional.
I look forward to the day when GNU/Linux can be a serious alternative to Windows for both office and home use. A user shouldn't have to know what a "repo" is. The distro/OS maintainer can throw all packages into one repo/software center that update to highest available version. Stable versions and beta versions can be installed and updated side by side just how it works with Chrome in its current apt repo.
I think one of the more exciting things in Linux right now is the "linglong" package format from Linux Deepin. I don't know how much it will solve in the real world other than provide sandboxing by default. Apt package manager and deb packages are efficient, but not bullet proof for desktop use. Most of the time dependencies and "empty repos" (older packages are automatically removed) make it very difficult to revert a bad update. It is easy to solve by packaging without package dependencies that change between versions. Chromium, Firefox and Pale Moon updates are easy to revert if older versions are kept in the apt repos. If something is used in production the the easiest way to minimize downtime is to go back to the older version while problems with the new version are investigated.
The problem with Linux Deepin is that it forces its own UI (just like Windows and macOS). It also includes the kitchen sink (just like Windows and macOS and many Linux distros for that matter). I think it is a bit ridiculous that people complain about Free Open Source Software from China and then go on to use the proprietary Chrome browser or the proprietary Nvidia driver. A bigger problem is all the hardware based "backdoors" that pop up as security chips. How many cores does a certain SoC have? That can be almost impossible to answer, because no public documentation is available. Only the CPU can have several undocumented cores. On the hardware level there is a ton of work to be done to achieve privacy and security.
I HAVE COME TO BURY THE BIOS, NOT TO OPEN IT: THE NEED FOR HOLISTIC SYSTEMS
https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-c ... c-systems/
PS I wish I didn't need Android with Google Play store, but all in all I can't complain about all the possibilities that software gives me. I hate to say it, but my digital life might be more important than my real life. I interact more with people through a computer screen than in real life. My only excuse is that I don't watch TV and I don't even own one anymore.