Linux Mint has become great OS.

I've been using Linux Mint continuously for 6 months now on my daily driver, and it has cemented itself as my go to OS. It has worked for me, and haven't had issues with it so far.

And the best thing for me, it that it lends itself to my needs flawlessly. Linux Mint is a really mature OS, and one that users with any skill level can use on daily basis without running into any problem. The only reason for not recommending Linux Mint, is that the person in question needs an app only available for other OS. And more often than not, the pool of this apps is growing thin.

Yet, for casual users Linux Mint is quite a good option. All mayor apps run on Linux Mint, or have an equivalent than is at least as good or better than the app they are replacing.

At work I use both Window 7 and 10, and neither is superior to Linux Mint. On the user experience side, most people wouldn't really miss much of what Windows has to offer. With time, Linux Mint has become a solid OS that can give Windows a run for its money any day of the week.

The Linux Mint team has really stepped up their game since the Linux Mint 18 "Sarah", and each new version feels that brings some more polish and performance to the system. Currently I'm running the 19.1 "Tessa", and it has run great so far.

With each release, their motto of "from freedom came elegance" feels true. And its not an elegant OS, is quite stable and easy to use.

The geek community is diverse.

As a geek, one of the most frustrating thing I've to face on daily basis is being told that I can't be one because I don't look the part. Most of the time, the main reasons given is that I don't look the part either because of the way I dress, or because I'm not socially awkward.

It seems that most people don't realize that most geeks don't fall into either those negative stereotypes. While there are people who are socially awkward, and don't know how to dress well(sometimes both), it doesn't make them necessary means they are geeks. I do realize that there are some geeks out there that fall into the stereotype, they don't represent the community as a whole.

Many of us, who identity as geeks, do so because its what better represents the interests we choose to pursue. We are inclined to video games, comics, manga, and intellectual subjects. Many of these things, don't really interest many outside the geek community.

Yet, we do have a wide range of interests other than in things that are considered to be geeky. As such, this means that we do sharpen the social skills that allow us to mingle with people outside the geek community with ease while maintaining a strong geek identity.

It seems that most people outside the geek community don't seem to be aware of how diverse geeks really are. We have different backgrounds, beliefs, and ways to express ourselves. There are many overlapping areas that give geeks a sense of community, but are many ways we are differ. If you look closely, you can see that within the geek community, there are several subgroups that serve different interests.

As with many things with people, there is no single way to be a geek or how we look.

2 out of the 3 top OS, power mobile devices.

With the raise of the smartphone, and with some help of tablets, Android has come to have the largest user base of any operating system. While Microsoft Windows is still has the second largest user base, iOS has the the third spot with quite a lead over the macOS at fourth place.

I find it interesting, that 2 out of the top 3 OSes used by people at large are used to power our mobile devices such smartphones and tablets. It means that we have shift the way we use computers, from desktops and laptops, to smartphones that we carry with us most of the time.

It all happen in a relative short time, compared with how long personal computers took to become as common as smartphones have. Nowadays, people are more likely to own a smartphone than they are to own a desktop, or a laptop, in most of the world.

What makes it all more impressive, is that in such a small package smartphones have more than enough power to do much of what can be done in a computer with quite an ease of use. Smartphone have become more than adequate for most uses that most people have for a computer.

While I doubt that desktops, and laptops, will disappear, they certainly will become more of niche products. Tablets will also find niche markets, while smartphones will continue to dominate the consumer market.