There might be a slight point here, but speaking for me its all about not giving even more data (power) to "the few", that clearly do not wield that data in our interest.
For everyone living near nothern DE thinking about the transition to the cozy diesel engine http://www.maschinenmuseum-kiel-wik.de runs their submarine diesel engine every 3rd sunday. Spoiler: Loud gets redefined & not especially cozy.
This exactly, but let me add: Develop an urge to understand things. One needs to understand the whole system environment just to be able to make good choices.
To give "urge" more meaning: These days I get a noticeable weird feeling in my gut if I'm working in a environment where there are too many unknowns.
Which Notebook is a "good" linux machine? All my "linux on NB" experiences so far have been kind of compromised with lack or quality of drivers - resulting in poor overall performance. E.g.: no/poor/intermittend wifi/BT, excessive battery drain, loud fans.
Try to get in early or / late on a week day - especially if you like to let your eyes / imaganitaion wander around uninterupted. Otherwise it gets somewhat crowded despite the fact that their limiting / scheduling aproach.
It is more the necessity of working around frequency congestion and all those other voice via radio related problems eg ("to","two","victor","vector",unameit) than a convenience change of a good working system.
Great read about that "my stetement is meant as a question" topic in the AVWeb Series "Say again". It boils down to "inflection does not work (well) via radio, add 'request' as prefix to your request".
It's a (underfunded) government industry - change often takes a lot of time in big companys, especially with their high demand to security and procedures.
I'd like to recommend the AVWeb series "Say again" series by Don Brown. It gives some insight in the last decades of the airspace controlling government industry and it's problems.
The process of structuring and explaining a problem to yourself via email or as before mentioned as "something similar" is available as a service: http://duckie.me/#about_section
This method helped me alot as I found myself explaning a problem to a colleague finding the solution through the indepth explanation, wasting both of our time and focus.