I've been all over the place tech-wise for at least 15 years now and I keep coming back to debian. Simple, reliable, and impressively enshittification-proof. I was on team xfce but got hooked on i3wm at some point and haven't seen fit to look back.
I use Sublime for editor - it's not free which I normally can't tolerate but it has most of the functionality of vscode without being on the old corporate enshittification slide (and styles on vscode by feeling snappier too)
ITT: "I agree they're systematically fucking us over (and don't get me started on their horrible politics!) but will continue to enable them because it's convenient and saves me a few bucks" this defense doesn't make you look reasonable it makes you look like a clown
Yeah seriously, I'm not sure I've seen any anti HP sentiment in years except from people directly affected. And references just keep cropping up everywhere
I would argue that that particular insistence of theirs is precisely why they're still relevant today and seemingly immune to the enshittification and churn that plagues the rest of the ecosystem
What you're saying is the kind of behavior that results in Nazi Germany and extermination camps. At this point I can only assume you're trying to goad non-fascists into bannable speech
Relying on their sympathy, and the hope to replace them with a better government without using force, are absolute folly. They're fascists; making those things not forthcoming is like their whole schtick. Small arms won't defeat them in battle, but guns can make occupation almost infinitely more costly for fascists to maintain compared to willful docility
If by undesirable you mean I desire instead to keep living, and by conserve my way of living you mean I just get to continue breathing - then yes. They try to kill me, there's no moral limit on what I can rightfully do in return if they don't succeed. Including rocket them off to planet conservative before they get another shot.
I've been all over the place tech-wise for at least 15 years now and I keep coming back to debian. Simple, reliable, and impressively enshittification-proof. I was on team xfce but got hooked on i3wm at some point and haven't seen fit to look back.
I use Sublime for editor - it's not free which I normally can't tolerate but it has most of the functionality of vscode without being on the old corporate enshittification slide (and styles on vscode by feeling snappier too)