windows is ass. i use only linux now.

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[–] 67 points 1 year ago (31 children)

Given the path of the US right now, this is the wisest decision any American can make.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Indeed. Wise decision for everyone else too.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It’s a bit more urgent for US Citizens.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why don’t they upgrade to a Canadian OS then?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This. Also, get a VPN service, like Nord that's preferably not based in the US. Also, Microsoft is literally installing spyware on your computer already. (CoPilot and Recall). They would have NO problems turning over your computer data to the Trump regime on their whims.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, sure, in terms of OS choice.

    I think there are some other decisions that give it a run for its money if you don't limit the scope to computing, though.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    While true, desktops and laptops mean nothing now. Most people dont even have anything other than a phone.

    If youre using android or ios, youre not private and you are being tracked 24/7.

    Sadly my s23 only runs android and Linux phones aren't good enough yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Every gamer does a sideways glance ;).

    GrapheneOS for Pixels, you can be completely degoogled.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Agreed. Remote desktop from Linux to windows with multiple monitor support sucks. Laggy and full of quirks, that make the options unworkable. Which sucks cause I work home office a lot and remoting to my work PC does not work well.. So I still have windows at home just for this.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I fully flipped over every device in my house off windows about a week or two ago, and so far so good!

    I've been daily driving linux on my personal laptop since 2009 (16 years now!?) for school / work / personal work-esque stuff, and my work laptop is now OSX. A few weeks ago I flipped my gaming machine from windows to popOS and been quite pleasantly surprised at how well gaming on Linux is these days. So much so, I convinced my wife to let me flip her gaming machine to Linux as well.

    The only hiccup I've recently had was having to deal with windows-only, non-steam software. Ie. insta360. Luckily, there are compatibility layers / emulators I can use to be able to run it. It's slow, but good enough.

    At this point, there's no good reason for me to go back to Windows or anything Microsoft. It's even become a red flag when I hear a business is using Microsoft's products. I want to hope Microsoft gets a wake up call at some point soon and turns the ship around, but I think they've got too many big-company deals to have to worry about their consumer products being shite.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I did this in 2012 or something. Welcome!

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