{"id":2597,"date":"2025-10-14T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:09:51","slug":"its-october-14th-time-to-switch-to-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/its-october-14th-time-to-switch-to-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s October 14th. Time to switch to Linux!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Linux-Mint-Ctrl-Alt-Del.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Linux-Mint-Ctrl-Alt-Del.jpg 568w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Linux-Mint-Ctrl-Alt-Del-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I made the switch to Linux 5 1\/2 years ago after Microsnot ended support for Windows 7.  Of course, I was so nervous at first. But once I made the plunge, I&#8217;ve been happy ever since and I haven&#8217;t looked back. Delete Bill Gates&#8217;s authority over your life. It&#8217;s crazy that the moonbats who reject RFK Jr. because he is neither a scientist nor a doctor are the same ones who blindly follow whatever Bill Gates says, who is neither a scientist nor a doctor and is an authoritarian scumbag who constantly complains about how there are too many people in the world and have sterilized, maimed and killed countless people through his vaccine initiatives worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40stevethefishdotnet%3A2%2Fwindows-7-is-going-goodbye-i-m-switching%3Aa?r=9UnqEKF8FFD6WDzGTLhHYJExn7cJMdzF\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my video that YouTube banned for &#8220;medical misinformation&#8221; even though I was simply reporting on news events. Bill Gates is a horribly evil man and fortunately, Odysee allows freedom of speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s, there was so much more diversity for home computing. If you wanted business productivity, you&#8217;d go with IBM. For publishing you&#8217;d go with Apple MacIntosh. For music it was an Atari ST. For multimedia, definitely Commodore Amiga. But we let this be whittled down to either Microsoft or ultra-trendy (and ultra-expensive) Apple. It&#8217;s time to ditch the Windows\/Apple paradigm. My Mac fan Kevin got sick of Apple and he switched his Mac&#8217;s OS to Linux. You do not have to continue supporting Bill &#8220;I dunno how all that CP got on this computer&#8230; it must&#8217;ve been an employee&#8221; Gates and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Ditch Adobe who just wants you to be a slave forever by renting their software instead of owning it. Break free! Linux is your freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the switch to Linux 5 1\/2 years ago after Microsnot ended support for Windows 7. Of course, I was so nervous at first. But once I made the plunge, I&#8217;ve been happy ever since and I haven&#8217;t looked back. Delete Bill Gates&#8217;s authority over your life. It&#8217;s crazy that the moonbats who reject &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/its-october-14th-time-to-switch-to-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s October 14th. Time to switch to Linux!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[42,250,290],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-linux","tag-meme","tag-memes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2614,"url":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/switch-to-linux\/","url_meta":{"origin":2597,"position":0},"title":"SWITCH TO LINUX!","date":"2025-10-23","format":false,"excerpt":"I implore anyone who sees this message to ditch the cycle of abuse and liberate yourself. 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