Why moving to Linux to avoid Microsoft spying is impossible for most people

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My name is not snowden

 

Dit you even looked at the link They been doing this for 10 years building on Linux have used it many times and yes It updates everything that is out there if you want

 

Why not Ubuntu? It's the easiest Linux distro to work with.

 

The ignorance is strong in this thread.

I suspect it has a lot to do with this being a Windows forum. Just as people are all fan crazy over their wireless provider they use. It's like trying to tell a someone how good O2 Mobile is while inside a Virgin Mobile community.

1. Linux can be used for home or business.
2. Linux can be as easy as point and click (you do not need to learn the command line, though it helps just as much as it helps in Windows)
3. All the task you seek to accomplish in Windows can be done on Linux (so long as you're willing to look past name brands)
4. You can install an app just as easy as you do in Windows (EXE and MSI are replaced with DEB and RPM).

I think #3 is what trips most people. They get stuck on the name brand and not the actual task or function. It's like arguing Nike vs Adidas. They're both shoes and they both have the same function and completing the same task.

 

Mint is fully compatible with *buntu, since it basically is Ubuntu 'remastered' (Mint 17.2 = Ubuntu 14.04 v2).
Mint uses a different python written update manager called 'mintUpdate' which uses Synaptic to upgrade and install packages based on levels ranging from 1-5.

• 1-2 would be considered safe to install (browser, office, translations, common apps).
• 3 is considered low risk but still to be cautious.
• 4 is considered medium risk since stability risk (Xorg and input drivers).
• 5 is considered dangerous (kernel and driver).

Since Mint is maintained with the mindset the simple people (non geeks), they want to make sure the system will absolutely never break on (un)bootable/useable level as IRC would be useless than, even if risk is small.
For example, imagine installing the official Nvidia(nvidia-*)or AMD(fgrlx) driver and then those companies decide to remove your card from the driver because it seemed to old.... (open source will never have this)
This is basically stability vs security or noob/common vs geek/conscious user.
However, you can set mintUpdate to install all packages like Ubuntu does right from its settings.

Code:

howtogeek.com/176495/ubuntu-developers-say-linux-mint-is-insecure-are-they-right/

If you want to bypass all that anyway, you could also just use 'apt-get dist-upgrade', which upgrades the system and allows adding/removing new/old packages.

 

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@T-S: What You say is true. The Trade Center "attacks" are the main reason that the Patriot act was accepted by American citizens. And truth be told, there's a group of people who claim that the attacks were fabricated to further that agenda.

Now I would prefer not to discuss it here, as it has nothing to do with this thread.

@OP, et.al.: No offense, but it has been demonstrated numerous times that it is -not- impossible to switch to Linux.
It has also been pointed out that internet / cellular traffic is monitored from a place that is totally outside the control of the OS user. Your data will be looked at whether you are running Windows, Linux, or whatever OS.

You need to come to terms with this. This is -NOT- the arena in which to fight this battle. This battle has to be fought by legislation. MDL is fighting this battle on two fronts; People here are coming up with mechanisms to block telemetry, and people are pointing out that Linux is a fairly safe alternative to surfing on the web.

I just posted this from a dual-boot Windows 7 / Linux machine. And many of us here are doing the same thing.

It's not impossible.

 

Which led the way for a company to collect data and say you can't use the program unless you comply. Can you say dictatorship.

Same as the moon landing. There's just some pic's that can't be explained.

 

So how do you like MINT ? Maybe you could post some of your OB hardware and tell us if it was easy to get drivers, which hardware MINT had a driver for, and if any you needed to load.

 

I think that, as any other doubtful case it was submerged by silly conspiracy theories just to mask the real questions the attack raised. Just like the porn movies labeled as Disney cartoons as weapon to fight the piracy

I think, the attacks were real but some people inside the zillion of US agencies knew it and took no action.

Exactly the same thing happened with Pearl Harbor

 

I would like my share of the 130 billion spent on the pentagon defense system back, as it was hit.