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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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For me, one of the problems with Mac (aside from it not being an open source system) is that it compels its users to upgrade. Mac OS becomes obsolete before the hardware does. You're forced to upgrade on a pretty regular basis, and it often involves e-waste and high prices. Linux enables you to run a modern OS on very old hardware.
https://www.7-zip.org/ is great, agreed.
VeraCrypt is probably very useful, although I haven't used it. I default to LUKs, lately, but VeraCrypt is great for cross-platform encryption.
Thanks for the comment, John Paul!