If you follow popular technology you get a slow stream of annoying technology thats predatory by nature. When I switched to the free software side, my experience sped up and I had finer control over everything. My files are mine and not a company's, non-free javascript is disabled so the web is faster, and my system is lightning fast since its devoid of windows telemetry. Encryption keys and offline password managers can be a hassle but the freedom overshadows the difficulty for me. Or maybe its stallman stockholm syndrome.
Most of the files that stick around operate on backup through ubiquity. While it doesn't guarantee that the integrity of the media is shipe-shape, as long as someone cares it will probably exist(e.g video game roms and embarrassing pictures).
Chrome OS always has me torn. Its a beautiful well designed OS with a great concept behind it, however, its obviously non-usable from a privacy standpoint.
you truly have an ideal scenario though, for me I make a 100,000 in SF and between my expenses and taxes its the equivalent of making 40000 anywhere else.
Antergos or manjaro. You get all the drivers that comes with an updated kernel, the AUR, the speed of it being a source-based distro, and all the latest software. Those who claim arch has breakage often draw from past experiences with vanilla arch. Vanilla arch his a complicated install process that results in an often unstable system. But antergos/manjaro is to arch as ubuntu is debian. Heres some reasons other distros are not as pleasant as Antergos/manjaro
Ubuntu:
the 6-month release cycle highlights whats great with rolling release distros. Youre greeted every 6 months with a broken system you have to reinstall.
Ubuntu LTS:
Alot of the packages are extremely outdated and you'll most likely collect a huge amount of ppas(a method of installing 3rd party programs in debian based distros) that will slowly but surely give your computer a decrease in speed and stablilty
RPM based distros:
Rpm package managers are the slowest you'll use. This will get to you eventually trust me.
Gentoo:
so difficult and impractical to use its a joke in many linux inner circles
Honestly, zed kinda shot himself in the foot with his latest post. He was especially wrong when he said it was not turing complete. Plus, python2 is going the way of COBOL as its only getting LTS level support and no major updates.
