It's not a good analogy. Something is still on in suspend. Good you can control Linux kernel, but what about all other chips which may be an attack vector?
Oh, nostalgia. I had a US Robotics 56K modem, which produced two bell-alike sounds during handshake. It was cool. I search for that specific sounds for years and cannot find.
I'm currently developing ASP.Net Core services and modern .Net is quite nice. Everyone around me uses absolutely free Visual Studio Community edition, so it would be weird to not use it.
These articles... I'm not sure who are the target audience, because I am definitely not and I don't know anyone who is.
Specific OS is not the important, anything with modern KDE is good enough to replace Windows 10/11.
But do I (and all my colleagues) need Microsoft Office (Word, Excel at least) and/or Drawing software (Adobe or something) and/or god forbid Visual Studio 2026, and some other corporate software to make a living? Inevitably yes.
Software Architect, Python/Django enthusiast.