Alioth Fox (but you can call me Daddy~) on Nostr: I would definitely divest from Microsoft at this point if I could - the trouble is I ...

I would definitely divest from Microsoft at this point if I could - the trouble is I can't get my tablet drivers working on any Linux build I've tried (and believe me, I have spent *days* looking for and trying different solutions), and without that, I have no ability to do the work that puts food on my table. If I had money, I would get a second computer without Windows on it just to see if I could get the drivers to work natively (as opposed to trying to get them working on a VM).

I honestly don't put Adobe on the same level as Microsoft for the simple reason that Adobe is much less ubiquitous; it's not the same *kind of platform* that Windows is. I don't judge people who *can't* divest from Adobe products - I do judge the people who *can* divest but refuse to simply because they can't be bothered to learn new software. With Microsoft, I don't see it as being quite as simple as "learning new software" or even learning at all; there's a lot of stuff that Windows does that Linux *simply cannot do,* including features that I need (e.g. working tablet drivers, certain software compatibilities).