Was looking do a clean install of 16.04 --
-- on my desktop machine once Canonical emits the final release. The desktop machine has been Ubuntu since 12.04. But I put Qubes on my travel laptop, and now I'm thinking that will be the main ride on the grandpa-box too. I've been pleased with Fedora 23 in a VM, though I'll have to put Ubuntu or something on as a dual-boot to access digital camera and sound recorder, etc. (Being security-oriented, Qubes does not usually mount non-block USB devices, no matter what you run in the VM.)
And I write all that in order to out myself as a hypocrite: No more do I deign to eff around with Windows privacy, and antivirus/malware, and auto-update settings. Quelle horreur! "Worst thing evar", I cry. But I'll probably spend hours and hours mucking about with Linux and Qubes and Ubuntu.
Sometimes I tell myself it's all about the soundness of the barrel I put my apples in. But really, it can be more about the perception of choice than about the barrel.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
