He is, but sometimes I go cross-eyed reading his books. He likes to explore some crazy topics, which makes for great reading but sometimes confusing reading too.

Yeah, that's why my favorite way of reading him is via his short stories. Just enough to get the big idea across and not get lost in too much detail.

Could you recommend one or two of these short stories? Thank you!

Pick up Axiomatic, try the first story (The Infinite Assassin) and see if it grabs you. It's got the best parts of something like Snow Crash, which drops you in without much exposition, and lets the visuals/action lead. Learning to Be Me from the same collection really stood out to me, it's a unique take on the "uploading your consciousness" trope.

My recollection from Infinite Assassin is that for someone not pretty literate in mathematics it would nearly be nonsense.

It's not a short story, but this is the first work of Egan's that I read and I loved it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

Into Darkness was another great one from Axiomatic. Also great action, and a seriously intense brooding atmosphere.

They made a tv show too, some of the cast being the ones from the radio show. It's definitely in the original doctor who style of special effects, and I really enjoy it!

Uniqlo in the UK do too, probably why the legs are abnormally long! I have had a few pairs from them and all have had some alteration done in store.

That already falls apart when the + operator is used for string concatenation so I think the answer is people are using it in a less rigorous sense already.

I fall into the another category. I use Linux because I like how I can customise heavily how it looks and have control over when updates are installed. I do some programming as well which does admittedly work better for me on Linux. I don't really care about the ideology. I use a Nvidia graphics card with closed source drivers because I want the best performance. Free and open source is nice, because I like how that works as an ecosystem but I'm never going to turn something I want down because its closed source. I considered dual booting for gaming but honestly enough works and as you say about rebooting just to open an office document, I don't feel like doing that just to play one game and then go back.