That's good. That's what I was trying to figure out. My intention is to be able to use my computer and trust it as much as possible. I'm not as extremist as RMS. I need to do stuff like send money via Venmo for rent, get money from ATMs, etc. For me, I guess a lot of it was just reducing how much companies like Google and Microsoft have on me and to be able to have the freedom to change what I want when I want. There's both practical and moral benefits to free software imo. For Unix, that's purely from a functionality standpoint. I think programs are easier to understand when they only do one thing well.

For systemd, I didn't realize the security issues it had until yesterday because I thought the main problem people had with it security-wise was the fact that every distro pretty much had it. That wasn't a big deal to me because every distro has X, Linux, etc. so the init system didn't really matter. I still don't understand the security problems it could still possibly have, but yesterday showed that they are sloppy programmers.

Thanks for bearing with me. I'm still figuring stuff out.