I have only met two types of people in tech. Those that use Linux because they value some combination of transparency, security, freedom, privacy, and community. And then the people who buy Macs. I guess windows users still exist out there somewhere, probably.

A Linux user has access to a huge ecosystem of software they could pay to add any feature to they wanted, especially with the capabilities of self hosted LLMs these days.

Why would anyone with this much freedom pay money for proprietary software they are not allowed to change, with no external accountability it is free of backdoors and can be maintained long term?

This is so strange to me.