Yeah Linux is a bit addictive. The open source devs use insiduous amounts of seductive features. Such as:

• stable TCP networking… since 1997
• operating systems that virtually don’t crash
• good security
• data stays local and under control of the user
• frugal on hardware resources and costs. My main PC is 16 years old and is still oversized - it has 16GB of RAM which I never use fully. My laptop is a Thinkpad T490 which I bought as a refurbished device.
• frugal on required attention. If you want to write a book, you can have a blank text screen with a cursor and that’s is it
• security updates which happen quietly in the background and don’t break stuff.
• no user tracking in local apps
• depending what you use, superb documentation
• stability of good interfaces over decades. I can manage files with the same shell commands as I did in 1994, when I learned them. My favourite text editor had stable interfaces since 1984. My mail program hasn’t changed its UI since 2009. I have documents lying around that are over 30 years old and which I can format and print on a whim.
• easy user interfaces without byzantine bloated features. If I want to scan a document with my Brother printer scanner combo thing, I type “simple-scan” and press the “scan” button and then the “save” icon. This is fast.

But yeah computers can be a bit addictive. Don’t forgot to have a coffee once in a while, and take breaks. Don’t forget to touch grass and go dancing, or whatever makes you happy.

And fuck AI. Fuck these companies. Fuck those employers pushing AI who don’t give a shit about the mental health of their people.