&gt; Individually you can put together a decent work flow with Linux programmes but it&#x27;s slow<p>So... you&#x27;re saying that there <i>are</i> substitutes, but that they aren&#x27;t as fast, you don&#x27;t want to use them and that (getting back to the discussion) you don&#x27;t view the privacy concerns with commercial OSes as sufficient incentive.<p>If so, why not just say that and avoid all the pointless flamage.