If you know me you know I love Linux. Maybe more than I should. I just love the idea of it, who wouldn't, who doesn't love freedom. Using Linux makes me feel free, it's hard to explain it and yeah sometimes stuff doesn't work but making it work is partly what attracts me to it.
I guess you could say I'm bored with stability. Don't get me wrong sometimes stuff just needs to work, so I do have an iPhone that I use as my daily driver. Gone are the days of flashing the latest and greatest custom roms on my Android phone. When it comes to my computer though, I like customization, I love having options.
I haven't always had love for Linux, but one thing is for sure I've never had love for Windows :P. My first love was macOS, but back then it was referred to as Mac OS X code named Tiger. I didn't really do anything with it, except for maybe some internet browsing.
My first taste of Linux came with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). From then on it was an on and off relationship, macOS was just really simple to use, it was really hard to get myself to use anything else. Years passed by and my technical ability got better, or maybe I just learned to actually read :P. Either way, I started finding myself using Linux more and more. I forced myself to learn how to really use Linux by installing and using it on bare metal instead of VMs.
These day's I run the latest Ubuntu LTS on my servers and Arch on my regular machines. There's just something about Arch and Pacman that I love. Pacman has quickly become my favorite package manager by far. I love the simplicity of it. You can grab and build straight from git with a single command. Combine that with the AUR and the possibilities are endless.
Why do people love Linux? Well here are a few reasons. Linux is free, like in "no cost". Who doesn't want free stuff? It's safe, secure and powers about 96% of the internet. The Linux community is amazing and you're almost guaranteed to find the solution to any problems you may encounter. It's open source. That means even YOU can contribute to it. You don't need to code, you can write how-to's or documentation. Lastly and maybe the most important it's not Windows. Only joking.
Microsoft and Windows have gotten better. WSL2 is great and it's a step forward. But it's still windows. Why not just run Linux.