Why would I care about Linux and privacy? I'm just a loser living a very insignificant life. At least make it a convenient one.

linux is just a sour grapes circlejerk for poorfags whose mom wont buy them a macbook. they use delusions like 'security' and 'privacy' to cope.

TrueTinks(tm) use BSD.

>>105957367 (OP)
because your ID will be stolen and used for ciminal activity, dumb dumb.

>>105957367 (OP)
Are you old enough to remember when the internet was actually carefree and fun? We think it's bad now but it's going to be infinitely worse when the ID requirements become mandatory everywhere. Knowing this, it's a good idea to learn about things like Tor and I2P as a fallback. You don't have to learn all of the ins and outs of security, only enough to secure your future as a free user of a free internet.

>>105957417
but windows is more secure than linux

>>105957367 (OP)
linux is actually more convenient then jeetcrosoft.
With now valve pushing linux into mainstream everything just WERKS,
I installed cachy os last week on my old pc and everything just WERKS, that pc was struggling with stuttering and other issues and now it WERKS.
And it was easier then installing windows.

Meanwhile my main pc had issues for weeks of stuttering when tabbing out of games and having huge artifacts if i used electron programs with hardware accell on. ITS PATHETIC, solution was to change a regkey...
With linux you dont see stuff chaning, you can add stuff, learn stuff. With microshit you are at their mercy and have to learn the new fix to their jeetgarbage they push every month.

Yes unironically having a performing gaming system right now its easier on linux then on windows.
If it wasnt for anticheat windows would be dead in a year on consumer pc and just be there for the enterprise slaves.

>>105957427
The *only* reason I use Linux anymore is that I'm used to workflows that I've used for a decade and a half that don't translate well to Windows (9 workspaces, meta + # to change workspace). There's no perfect way to implement that in Windows.
Other than that, Windows is better in practically every other way that matters to me.
>inb4 but have you tried obscure distro x
I've been doing this for 15 years. I have extensive experience with the distros they're all based on.
Windows is better hands down.

Privacy is a myth tho

>>105957450
>Windows is better hands down.
In what ways? Be specific.
inb4 you list the 3 remaining exclusive apps

>>105957576
I'm not here to argue or to convince anyone of anything.
If Linux works better for you, great. I'm in my mid-40s. I've used Linux for 15 years. I generally find Windows a much smoother experience these days. I get kernel-level game-breaking hard freezes on my Linux systems that I don't get on Windows - incidentally, that was a big part of why I stopped using Windows in the first place in the mid 2000s (I went through a brief period where I used Macs).
I'm tying all of this from a Linux system. I'm not a hater. It's okay for people not see Linux as the end-all be-all of desktop computing.

It’s just fun to play around with technology for us nerds

>>105957367 (OP)
you are free to not care, I retain the stance that infringing other people's privacy is not correct and is a direct violation of basic human rights

>>105957669
I'm the comment above you - agreed.
I love playing with Linux. I started playing with it in 2009, switched over to it as my main system in 2010. There's a lot of great leeway it gives you to toy with stuff you'd never think to toy with in another system. And I got into this stuff in earnest with FreeBSD, which isn't Linux but a lot more hands-on in terms of configuration.
But it's a toy of sorts. I'm at a point in my life where I need things to *just work* and not fiddle with them too much. And I find Windows better for that when it matters. I still use the shit out of Linux because I have a skill set there and am more familiar with it than Windows. But I don't actually count on it for much apart from basic servers.

if the hardware is pozzed why does windows still need ntuser.dat

>>105957367 (OP)
It's about self-respect. You're free to use Windows, since you clearly have none.

As someone who uses Linux but hates Linux-fanboys, I think so much of fanboyism is driven by people with a desire to be "elite" and then convince others to switch over just so that they can see how "elite" those fanboys are.
The fanboys are the best argument for Windows because who really wants to deal with these people.

>>105957367 (OP)
You won't care about it untill it's too late and you are eating bugs in a pod waiting for it to be your turn to be turned into bio fuel.
You and people like you will gladly give away your rights in exchange for safety, comfort and convenience.
In the end you will have lost your rights but you won't have anythig you were promised either.

>>105957711
>I need things to *just work*
...then use linux? Why do people feel the need to larp as oldfags for this stuff? If you'd install linux yesterday you'd know that linux usability is a solved problem. Yeah, sure, back in 2005 you had to root through mailing list archives to solve obscure graphic driver issues. That hasn't been true in decades. Your memes are vastly out of date at this point.

>>105957798
Nice bait.

>>105957798
>noooo, you're not toeing the fanboy line so you must be a larper!
Nice bait.
Incidentally, fanboys like you are the biggest reason not to use Linux.

>>105957790
>you are eating bugs in a pod waiting for it to be your turn to be turned into bio fuel.
not much difference then, i guess i'll keep using windows

>>105957367 (OP)
Because bullies like to pick on losers, and the government and corporations are the biggest bullies of them all.

>>105957798
I'll add that I'm not talking about shit like configuring X to work with an obscure display issue.
I'm talking about stuff like simply running my ThinkPad w AMD processor that I bought specifically because it would play nice with Linux just randomly freezing up. And I mean hard freeze; can't even switch to tty to reset anything.
Yes, I know how to work around it and have. But once something kicks you in the nuts, there's a trust issue. And the fix doesn't always work; just a couple days ago I jumped onto an important Zoom meeting and the fucker froze on me anyway.
Just because something can be fixed doesn't mean I want to fix it. And Linux will always be a moving target, always in development. Sure, you can use a stable distro, but you're getting stale software and, yes, sometimes that matters.
The other problem is that Linux will always be a third-class citizen when it comes to being a target for professional development. Professional developers spend time where the money is. Sure, they can and do port to Linux. But the problem is that you either have to package (and test) specifically for a variety of platforms or use Snap/Flatpak, which come with its own issues. Linus Torvalds pointed out that this was an issue years ago and it hasn't gotten any better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&t=283s (4:43 in)

You can dismiss me as a larper all you want but, again, I don't know what your angle in doing so is given A) You're talking to me directly, not some audience that's inclined to agree with you and B) you're not going to change my mind because I know what my experience level is as well as the issues I've dealt with.

>>105957367 (OP)
Telemetry steals a lot of your performance
>Just buy better hardware!
There's only so much you can pay your way out of 50 different companies phoning back home. Also you have scenarios like laptops and phones were stolen performance translates into stolen battery life

>>105957995
>my ThinkPad w AMD processor that I bought specifically because it would play nice with Linux just randomly freezing up.
Every piece of random hardware I've ever stuck linux on has just werked, but somehow your specially designed to run linux hardware breaks lmao. People always do this thing where they'll pick some obscure crap nobody's heard of to run linux "to make things easier". Like some meme distro that they heard about god knows where. Nigga use normal hardware and put a normal distro on it and it will just work.

>>105958428
That's great. I've had the same freezing issues across three ThinkPads. This is not obscure hardware; everything in these computers should theoretically work.
>normal distro
Doesn't get more normal than Debian, Fedora, and Tumbleweed. And I've had this particular freezing issue for the better part of several years.
Just because you've been lucky enough not to have problems doesn't mean other people don't have them. A big part of the problem is that Linux is under a regular development process and, as such, there's always going to be new bugs rearing their head. There is no "quality control" like you'd find in a professional os development process; "quality control" in an open source model is the users themselves (hopefully on testing branches but sometimes they miss stuff). "Move fast and break things."
I swear to god, you fanboys are the absolute worst advocates anything could have. Not having to be identified with you is enough reason not to use these systems.

>>105958409
>Telemetry steals a lot of your performance
you sure?

>>105958499
>I've had the same freezing issues across three ThinkPads
So you tried the same thing three times and got the same problem every time lmao. You retards are hilarious. I take it back, stick to windows, it's better this way.

>>105958575
Maybe when you grow up and get a life and real job you'll understand, kid.