ElementaryOS will probably be the last version (distro, etc.) of Linux (GNU/Linux, yes I know) I use. It is, in my opinion the best Linux for personal computers and while I will run Linux on other things (servers, embedded devices, etc.), Elementary will be the Linux I myself use on a personal computer until I'm done using Linux this way.
I don't want to seem unappreciative for what Linux and Free Software have done for computing. I'm keenly aware of what it was like before we had a free and open source alternative to proprietary commercial operating systems. But I'm just as familiar with what came before all that, when a personal computer was something you could buy (or build!), for the cost of something like a single car payment, and once you had it you had everything you needed to begin making it into exactly what you needed.
My work, when I'm able to choose it, is now focused on resuming that path of personal computing, and I don't see Linux as a part of that. It is simply too big, too complicated and is, let's face it, "owned" by the exact same type of people it was created to free us from in the first place.
It will take time to bring us back on the personal computing path we had before it was appropriated by capitalists in the 80's. In the meantime, ElementaryOS is a fine place to work, made by fine people who understand that personal computers are more about people that computers, and appear (at least to me) to be one of the very few groups of people producing technology at the moment who are not willing to sell-out the people who use their software for some small profit or temporary security.
Jason J. Gullickson, 2026