Same. Had an Xbox One last generation and I'm not fully gaming on the Steam Deck. The "good enough" performance at the huge benefit of open platform and portability is just what I need.
Slackware is the happy medium I've found between BSD and Linux. It's unashamedly unix-like and uncomplicated, and has its own rich ports tree through Slackbuilds.
Slackware lost it's way when it tried to comepte with desktop distros but didn't really commit to it.
I used to like it as a minimal distro that just stayed out of my way and considered it oriented towards slightly more technical folk.
Then the community would be hostile if you were digging in to an issue and didn't do a full install because that's the recommended way. And not doing so would also result in stupid issues due to stupid dependencies like mplayer not working because samba was not installed.
Alpine is an improvement over Slackware in every way.
It was my first linux, but I haven't used it in ages. I never found installing from source tgz to be that bad, but dep trees have gotten much deeper over time. I don't think windowmaker had clipboard support when I left it. There is something nice about knowing what every file in your system is for, and being able to read most of them with ed. Alpine scratches that itch for me. I try to sub in anything with a rust equivalent I can. Building rust may have deep trees, but with musl the only runtime dep is usually the kernel itself.
It’s not because they thought my Samsung was cheap, rather they believed Android is inelegant or tacky compared to iOS. Another part of it was the lack of interoperability with FaceTime and iMessage.
Honestly, it's probably just small talk. Normal people tend to try to have opinions on things to signal worldliness to other people. It's akin to when a coworker mentions hating a teenage pop star, or a sport. The vast majority of the time, they aren't expressing deeply-held conviction: They're just trying to fill the air with noise in a way that provokes a sense of comradery.
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