I already had like a thousand reasons before that, so…

Freedom. No company tells me what I can and cannot do with MY machine.

My advice: Stick to distros and softwares that are widely used. When presented with options, tend to stick to the defaults.

Just because literally 100% is customizable in the Linux world does not mean you have to customize your system 100%.

That’s my motto since 1996 when I started using Linux.