These aren’t good reasons

Is it on F-droid?

F-droid has a few decent ones, but it seems it varies by country quite a bit?

That’s a text editor, not a word processor

Switch to Android is a good first step. Being able to run verified open source software with F-Droid is a good first step!

What is FLOSS?

Can someone explain what this is/does?

Silicon Valley middle out compression, but for real

SSDs are way more reliable than spinning disks, especially in a laptop that gets banged around. HDDs win in only one category: capacity per price.

Was it once a joke?

Sometimes it’s okay to use something you’re familiar with and not have to learn (Debian). Fair enough on the snaps though; need to look into them before I form an opinion.

I thought this was about how in North America, passenger trains generally have to yield to freight trains, at the cost of extreme delays, longer trip times, and late arrivals.

Why away from Ubuntu/Debian?

What’d Tim do again?

Common story, very funny though. I’m actually working at a SaaS vendor I used to use, and their search was unusable. I finally got to fix it and am very happy about it