An entire state's population (Maine) just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack

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7. I had thought of that

And I briefly considered switching to Ubuntu or some other alternative to the PC or the Mac. But if you are not someone who is sufficiently into computers (and I am one of those people who mostly just uses them as means to an end rather than an end in themselves) it is too much work and grunt work if you are not particularly knowledgeable about computers, basic use aside.

Open source is better because it has more eyes on it to fix it, and pride. OpenBSD Operating system is the most checked before release and almost nobody uses it.

Totally hear you on that. Pride in your work does make a difference-no doubt about it.

I have never heard of OpenBSD. It is not listed here:

https://www.openlogic.com/blog/top-open-source-operating-systems-2022

I am guessing it is mostly used by computer engineers rather than lay people.

But again it probably would be more work than I am up to given all the stuff I am behind on..even commonly used terms like “disk partitions” make me run in the opposite direction .