What's your "if you can't beat them, join them" movement?
@nixCraft I think that if you’d be willing to join them, your convictions against them aren’t very strong.
@nixCraft C++.
To be fair, I've never tried to beat C++. It beat me.

@nixCraft Proprietary hardware design*

*almost, I was about to sign an NDA for access to documentation on my fingerpring scanner, until the hardware manufacturer said I couldn't make an open source driver

@nixCraft GUI computing.... at least back when Windows 95 came out. "No, I can't help you install your printer... with a mouse, that's insane!"
@nixCraft Every job I've ever had

@nixCraft Using and recommending Windows for PC gaming. SteamOS 3 is the closest we've ever gotten, but many expected conveniences still aren't there yet and may never be.

Plus, desktop Linux still has a number of hurdles that I expect the average user would very much get caught on and scared away by.

@nixCraft TG. my single long distance connection to my folks
@nixCraft
I'd say, when I bought my first smartphone. I was definitely pretty late to that party...
@nixCraft TypeScript fullstack development
@nixCraft working hourly at a company.
@nixCraft I used to be a homophobic white male now I’m a pansexual trans-girl, so lgbtq+