The *nix community is filled with leftists and degenerate furries. It is not any different from Microsoft Corporation in terms of political views. Just look at Firefox for example.
A Pihole used with Android, Windows+WSL and Ungoogled Chromium/Brave make far more sense for normal people - just don't buy Apple hardware and you'll be fine.
Open source software you say? Just look at how Gab was blacklisted on F-Droid. We need free speech puritan software, just "open source" is not enough anymore.
As for GitHub and GitLab...same shit. I'll still use GitHub because they have more free stuff. Because I know both would readily censor Parler/Gab source code right now.
The *nix community's propaganda about "freedom" is just lies. None of them believe in actual freedom. Half of the *nix community is now corporate users anyway. The same capitalist, freedom-hating companies that are censoring the internet right now.
I mean at least with Linux you know (or rather, for the most of the population, you could know) what is "behind the scenes" whereas you don't know whether Microsoft is just spying on everything you're doing (or hell, if the CCP has a "wiretap" on every Windows or Mac computer). IMO with Linux it's more transparent because (if you choose correctly) everything is open sourced and you could audit the codebase.
That being said, though, some (Mozilla ahem) are shit.
I'm about to do it, hear good things about linux mint, also since apparently games run pretty well using Proton I really have 0 reasons to stay on windows, fuck MS
Also I'll gladly pirate any MS garbage from now on.
Ah, didn't know that about Ubuntu, but then Mint seems to be ok?
Either way, after more thoroughly reading your post I'm leaning more towards Debian now
Also a VM would not really be any indicative of my normal use, since I game a lot, I think I'll just image my system drive as it is now, then if needed I can just go back to it as if it never happened heh.
But I'm not worried, whatever problems it brings I'll just adapt, I've been meaning to do the switch for far too long.
Thought about the yesterday and now my new laptop is on the way. I wanted to start with Tails OS or Qube. Those were recommended by Snowden for privacy. Qube has a lot more hurdles built into it for security and may not be the best daily driver.
I'll probably move my Windows machine to local ESX server for safe keeping in case I need to spin it up. Or consider dual booting.
The *nix community is filled with leftists and degenerate furries. It is not any different from Microsoft Corporation in terms of political views. Just look at Firefox for example.
A Pihole used with Android, Windows+WSL and Ungoogled Chromium/Brave make far more sense for normal people - just don't buy Apple hardware and you'll be fine.
Open source software you say? Just look at how Gab was blacklisted on F-Droid. We need free speech puritan software, just "open source" is not enough anymore.
Well, TIL
As for GitHub and GitLab...same shit. I'll still use GitHub because they have more free stuff. Because I know both would readily censor Parler/Gab source code right now.
The *nix community's propaganda about "freedom" is just lies. None of them believe in actual freedom. Half of the *nix community is now corporate users anyway. The same capitalist, freedom-hating companies that are censoring the internet right now.
Well, to be fair, Gitlab can be self-hosted, and there's no way that Gitlab (especially if you use their "community edition") can stop someone from, say, hosting an instance of Gitlab that stores MAGA projects.
I mean at least with Linux you know (or rather, for the most of the population, you could know) what is "behind the scenes" whereas you don't know whether Microsoft is just spying on everything you're doing (or hell, if the CCP has a "wiretap" on every Windows or Mac computer). IMO with Linux it's more transparent because (if you choose correctly) everything is open sourced and you could audit the codebase.
That being said, though, some (Mozilla ahem) are shit.
I saw many people (especially in the *nix community) leave GitHub.com for GitLab.com - a waste of time originating from a false divide.
Self hosted GitLab is nice, but you wouldn't be on GitHub in the first place if you wanted anything self hosted.
Android and Chrome OS are based on Linux, aren't they? Look at what has been done to them.
You can't disable Intel ME or AMD's PSP on modern processors.
Most people you're advertising Linux to here cannot read a single line of source for shit.
I'm about to do it, hear good things about linux mint, also since apparently games run pretty well using Proton I really have 0 reasons to stay on windows, fuck MS
Also I'll gladly pirate any MS garbage from now on.
Just curious, are you planning to erase Windows? (I just want to get a sense for what people are doing. Or a dual-boot?)
(If you need help, let me know!)
Also is Linux Mint recommended?
https://thedonald.win/p/11PpPFSD7S/x/c/1ASsdnhOEQ
Just pointing that out.
Also, you may want to try in a VM before you erase everything
Ah, didn't know that about Ubuntu, but then Mint seems to be ok?
Either way, after more thoroughly reading your post I'm leaning more towards Debian now
Also a VM would not really be any indicative of my normal use, since I game a lot, I think I'll just image my system drive as it is now, then if needed I can just go back to it as if it never happened heh.
But I'm not worried, whatever problems it brings I'll just adapt, I've been meaning to do the switch for far too long.
Oh, didn't realize this was true.
Either way, I don't think Mint is that bad (anymore)? That was my primary concern with Mint really
Yep, full format, no dual boot, linux only
I thought about creating a small partition just to test it out first, but eh, fuck it
great advice!
Thought about the yesterday and now my new laptop is on the way. I wanted to start with Tails OS or Qube. Those were recommended by Snowden for privacy. Qube has a lot more hurdles built into it for security and may not be the best daily driver.
I'll probably move my Windows machine to local ESX server for safe keeping in case I need to spin it up. Or consider dual booting.
Tails isn't supposed to be installed onto your hard drive permanently; IMO you're better off with Debian as a daily driver and Tails in case you go somewhere shady (and you can run off a USB)
Thanks! What flavor of debian?
I don't think there are flavors of Debian (like there are with Ubuntu)? I'd just use the regular Debian if other flavors exist