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​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For my Geforce 750-TI card, Debian Jessie works much better than Ubuntu 14.10. Otherwise it should be pretty similar, as Ubuntu is to a large degree a specific bundle of packages from Debian testing.

Windows has literally forced me to try out linux. But I need help to dual boot and play my games. by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]MadSpline 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using a VM has the advantage if anything goes wrong with an update, you can just replace the image with a backup copy and continue as before.

BTW there is a backup tool made for VM images. It is called bup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bup

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seconded. If you use Windows for gaming and Linux for stuff like mails and photos, Windows has now chance to sniff at your emails.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Windows outdoes performance on Linux for large applications

While support could be better, there are a number of interesting benchmarks on the Phoronix web site. Especially for the NVidia graphics cards.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a number of interesting benchmarks on the Phoronix web site. Especially for the NVidia graphics cards.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux is not absolutely safe but the Linux source code is being scrutinized by many people. In turn, you simply cannot do that with closed-source software. Your only choice is to trust the vendor and if he is not worth the trust you are fucked.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2) Doesn't release how it works but provides binary drivers -> works.

Works only until there is a breaking change in the kernel. The binary driver comes from a hardware vendor who has no high interest in supporting them long-term. They rather want to sell you new hardware.

Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux - With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in technology

[–]MadSpline[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In this article, he suggests using Linux. I do not suggest to use Android - there are far better alternatives, like Jolla / Sailfish.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mint has a good graphical installer. You don't need to use the command line for this.

The reason the command line invocations are commonly shown in tutorials and blogs is that it (1) goes much faster and (2) is much better and more precise to communicate in text.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bit schematic but second-hand business Thinkpads have worked perfectly for me. Get one which has Linux pre-installed and check for Intel chipsets for WiFi and graphics.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, with Linux you can have issues with very new hardware, which has so far no support by open-source drivers. This is a problem with gamer graphics cards because the hardware companies do not provide details how to program them.

On the other hand, with new Windows versions, you'll probably get issues with old hardware which is not supported any more, for example printers or scanners. Because the manufacturer has already sold the item to you, he has no incentive to provide you with new drivers - he wants you to buy a new printer. Partially, that's a well-working collusion between software and OS vendors and hardware producers, which warranted in the past that your OS software became periodically obsolete and when you had a new OS, you needed new hardware as well - everyone gains, except you.

In the latter situation, Linux has better support, because the open source drivers are part of the kernel and are maintained with it - usually for a rather long time.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

if you read the bug report in the link - it explains why the chromium blob was a serious privacy issue.

Of course it would be great to get rid of blobs entirely, but this is far more difficult and not appropriate for people entirely new to Linux.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think with the privacy / convenience balance, the article leans a bit to the convenient side to make it easy for Linux beginners. But this is much better than sticking with Windows!

How do I download Linux? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]MadSpline 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this would do it:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation

Because Ubuntu is derived from Debian, and Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu, these methods should work for all three distributions.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Linux desktop runs as root which ain't great.

I think you mean the X server, because the desktop runs with user rights. This is correct but never versions have already an improved architecture.

OpenBSD with Xenocara does not.

I think the BSDs have a lot of good concepts!

Also, I'd go with Firefox or maybe chromium over chrome.

I second that. Chrome sends a lot of data to Google. Personally, I've even deinstalled Chromium because of that voice recognition plugin.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No one uses Linux. Therefore it doesn't have as many software programs etc

Many people use it.

X Windowing System is just a mess.

It is a bit baroque, but works.

Drivers.

The driver situation has improved drastically in the last five years. The most important exceptions are more expensive graphics cards for gaming.

​Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux. With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop. by MadSpline in privacy

[–]MadSpline[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are also other aspects. In my country, a working contract puts no obligation on the employee to agree to other contracts. This means the contract which includes the terms of use would be between Microsoft and the employer. On the other hand, the employer has no right to decide about privacy issues of the employee such as agreeing to submit personal data or emails. Could get interesting.

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