God Was Never On Your Side by Motörhead. Lemmy was always highly critical of religion, and I think that is his definitive statement on the matter. He's an underappreciated writer.
Don't take what Linux users say as gospel. There's a wide variety of opinions that - yes - generally have some basis in truth, but usually it comes down to personal preference. Just because a vocal minority hates on systemd doesn't mean you now have to switch to Devuan. FOSS is full of opinionated and passionate people, but you should always use what works for you. Don't let others dictate how you use your computer and what code you run. Free as in freedom.
Now, having said all that, Canonical is suspect, don't use Ubuntu. Mint is fine.
These will one day be hung in a museum as a warning, lest we forget. Unfortunately, humanity is just an endless cycle of repeating the same mistakes, so nothing will be learned.
It was 20 years ago and Microsoft was terrible and Windows was awful. Later on I used Windows 8.1 somewhat out of necessity until it was deprecated and went back to Linux because Microsoft is terrible and Windows 10/11 is awful, but now with all kinds of invasive telemetry.
Stallman outlined our choices and told us this is where we were headed back in the 1980's. Since then, we have consistently made the wrong decisions. All is not lost, but the situation is dire.
The choices are there, you just have to be willing to inconvenience yourself.
So this is how 2026 starts.
Oh boy.
This is going to be a decade of a year, isn't it?