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For me, it's a combination of familiarity with Power ISA since the RS/6000 days, a chance to have as trustworthy and auditable machine as possible (no ME/PSP bullcrap), and a desire to support other architectures than the usual ARM or x86 duopoly. Fortunately, you don't have to make very many compromises. Most stuff just works and I'm delighted with the performance of my Talos. Most of all, I'm very confident it's not doing anything or exposing something that would make me vulnerable or insecure because I can audit it myself and the full documentation is included.

If people want choice in computing, we need to step up and support these alternatives or we'll reap exactly what we've sown.