[quote=spdrun]Lastly, if being 5 years behind means actually having control of what software you can install, and having control of your data (not having it synced to the cloud) then I’m all for the past 🙂 We’re moving from personal computing to corporate computing, and that’s disturbing.[/quote]
I think you’re a dying breed. Linux will be your only option (assuming Linux won’t try to follow the market down the Cloud services road). I personally fully embraces the Cloud services and it seems like all the major ecosystems are heading that way too.