Translation from the french users forum :
Hello,
I introduce myself.
I am 60 years old; I am a journalist.
My first computer was a Macintosh SE in 1988. For 30 years, I have been an
enthusiastic mac user. Long an ardent defender of Apple, my opinion changed,
finding that I was in an increasingly closed world that was becoming a
commercial ecosystem that was also being joined by the applications I was
using, with the imposition of annual lifetime subscriptions or the succession
of interest-free, if not counterproductive, paid updates.
At the same time, I became aware of the use of my personal data by Google,
Facebook, etc. I have also become aware of the threat to democracy worldwide
posed by the current evolution of data use.
A year ago, I made a radical shift. I left all social networks and switched
to Gnu/Linux with free software.
My data is hosted in Switzerland by an independent hosting company that owns
its servers.
I now use a PC with OpenSuse leap 15.1 which is mainly used for photo
management.
Thanks to Magic Banana who kindly informed me about Trisquel, my main
computer is now a Lenovo T400 with libreboot and Trisquel.
I also became a member of the FSF.
I am probably part of a new generation of gnu/linux users, without technical
skills but with a lot of determination in their choice.
Xmas
