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China literally invented bureaucracy 3000 years ago. It’s the cornerstone of Chinese civilization.

Post-it‘s with passwords aren’t the worst in security. Physical access to the note is required to get the password. One post-it under each keyboard with a different password is better than the same password shared widely.

GitLab is a good example of excellent software. It has a proper business model and has built a great community.

Most Linux desktop applications sadly have no good business model. If you have a business model you can pay developers, designers, support, writers, etc.

Free web applications and free FLOSS have lead to people not valuing software you are right. If there is much good software and services available for free, why should I pay?

As a developer I have bought many pieces of software to make my work easier: Git Tower, Kaleidoscope, PaintCode, Dash, Reveal, Charles, Acorn, Paw, are what come to mind right now. I perceive all of these tools' value to be high.

You can use bitcoin to buy drugs and other illegal things from the safety of your home.

It's not just developers and big influencer. Calling them power users is a better term. These are the people other people ask for advice.

Getting the right adapter to connect a display isn't easy. Many only support limited resolutions and frame rates.

Using only Darwin instead of Linux or FreeBSD was never really attractive. Contributing upstream is difficult to impossible, since Apple was never set up to take your contributions. The different Darwin distributions never really developed a direction or a unique feature set.

The only feature that sets Darwin apart from FreeBSD is launchd instead of init. The rest is mostly downsides like a weird file system. You can get dtrace on many other OSs today too.

Since you're looking for a desktop OS, you should test PC-BSD instead of pure FreeBSD.

XQuartz works just fine

The US has harsh sentences and high crime.

Because many devs are on Linux distros, that include PulseAudio by default. Support for *BSD ports is often a bit weak for software like that.