So what do you think is a good alternative?

"All hell" - sure, yer fuxxed. But just fine for a temporary supply chain failure. Which I'm afraid may happen more often until we change the tax laws back to not charge for stuff sitting in a warehouse unsold. Which is why everyone switched to JIT delivery. Tax a product when it's sold, not while waiting for it to be sold.

Even cheaper - keep a few cases of beef stew and soups, etc, stashed to keep you going during the outage.

Oh come on, that's a pretty weaksauce argument, pretty much every web site you connect to (not all) are running off Linux.

Unix? They're probably not even circumcised. Bunch of savages!

That's fine. I'm glad you like it, I detest working with those old shitty (smitty) systems.

Uh, all those relics you mentioned are way over 30 years old. You have fun with your ancient shit, us real people will push the envelope with modern stuff. Enjoy eating bugs while I make way more money cause I'm not stuck in the past.

Oh, you "commute" sounds like something a communist might do... But seriously good for you, but it's even better to work from home. Muahahaha

Steven King has a son named Joe. I'm not joking, but he is...

Oh, you're out of touch then, Mike Johnson just split them into separate votes yesterday.

Every major cloud provider is running on Linux, not just embedded. Even Microsoft's Azure cloud is running on Linux.

It's a street in Omaha

What the hell are you talking about?

And Microsoft's Surface line (Which is intended to directly compete with Mac laptops) also has soldered/glued everything. Won a Surface Pro 7 at a conference a couple years ago. Was excited til I got it home, realized it had 4GB RAM and you can't upgrade it. My wife is happy with it, gave it to her. For me, it was worthless. I stick to Dell's Precision line of laptops - upgradable and the power of a desktop machine. With fans!!

You ordered a Mac with upgradable RAM? Recently? On the M1/2/3 line? You're lying.