Many of us are notorious fence-sitters. This video attempts to explore some of the psychology of our profound hesitation when switching operating systems. I will share my personal experience, talk about some of the fears we face when making big changes, offer some warm encouragement, and do it all without a whiff of the elitist technobabble that tends to rear its ugly head in Linux discussions.

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The irony being that some Linux users fear change (or at least fight it tooth and nail) more than any other computer user.

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unix is about doing one thing and doing it well, which is why systemd, baaad

…what do you mean ditch x11 in favor of wayland? no no, we need to preserve x11, the famous one-thing-well-doer

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It can find and load your ssh keys. Does it just do one thing well?

Use plan 9.

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