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

Running a DAW with tons of plug-ins is not best in VM, nor is encoding video. Switching OS's just to use an app gets pretty tiresome real quick.

 

Being a black man, I know my people could be doing better. I don't get offended when people make generalizations about my people because there's a kernel of truth to it.

With that, I don't think he's referring to Chinese people as in the everyday man. Just as the American government forces American tech companies to give them back doors, I don't think it's wrong to assume that any other government does the exact same thing.

But, of course everyone here can speak for themselves. I just think that's what he meant..

 

Yeah, and this is possibly my biggest gripe with the Linux platform.. It's not new on the block but, its software selection suggests otherwise..

 

But, that's not a one machine solution lol. We're talking one machine solutions..

 

This is why I don't "trust" any OS. The American government's grip is just too tight. I don't mind any entity wanting to track me across the internet just as long to sell me s**t, i.e. Amazon e-mails keeping me up to date with what's on sale etc. Use to be no one minded. But, now the pigs want the data more and more, an alternative is badly needed. The issue is we're in a catch 22; either ballin systems with little security or basic systems with better security. There is no one stop shop. But, ah well, a revolution is upon us anyway.

 

And Microsoft doesn't show up at LinuxCon. More ignorance coming from your ill-thought-out posts. Linux runs Google's entire back end. You keep refering to Linux as a product when it's not. I already explained this to you in my earlier post where I completely obliterated every single thing you wrote. When I asked for facts and references, you provided absolutely nothing but yet another series of idiotic posts that follow a simple trend: you write your feelings about which way the wind is blowing, but you don't provide any facts. You provide zero references to anything backing up what you're saying. I already told you how vulnerabilities in Linux show up as compared to Windows a few posts back, but you refuse to listen and continue spewing your garbage on here.

You also have an axe to grind towards Linus Torvalds for whatever reason. He wrote a superior kernel to Windows that the entire world has benefited from immensely. How can you say anything negative about him? Can you please enlighten us on what you have done for humanity? I'm detecting the real reason behind your posts. You're a Windows fanboi and it bothers you that Windows has turned into something that so many people are complaining about, and rather than admitting facts and coming on here and reading the facts that I, Michaela and others have posted, you have an axe to grind towards Linux because you claim that you can't do video editing on it. Poor baby!

Here it is since you apparently missed it:

 

Or you could have simply disabled windows update after installing "known" safe updated windows 7 iso's slip streamed with all updates allready installed and simply left it alone or made one yourself with the many update tools out there! lol nobody is going to force windows 7 to update again with it disabled. And don't tell me windows needs updating anyway Any OS only gets more bogged down with all the updates anyway and has always run faster/better with clean install in the first place. Nothing MS updates is any safer then a good antivirus,a firewall, And a brain can't solve, You talk about not giving up like you did on linux but it sounds like you gave up after a simple install of windows 7 and a update with telemetry when the update can simply be disabled and you just didn't bother to figure it out. You yet again took the easy way out and jumped back to linux. But hey i'm glad your finally enjoying it that is until the next thing you want to install or configure screws you up again for a week lol and you will be back to windows i'm sure. Your too easily dismissive to anything your trying to do.

 

I'm talking about OSs marketed as Linux operating system distros, not Linux code in other products. Google is the face of Android in the eye of the average consumer, not Linux. I'm talking marketing and the average consumer, not tech enthusiasts.

You keep talking about tech-savvy consumers. Tech-savvy consumers don't generate the multi-billion dollar cash flow that is the consumer electronics industry; average consumers do.

I don't like it when any leader in the tech fields mud sling, not just Linus Torvalds; it doesn't help the consumer nor advance technology.

I never once said that Linux as a platform isn't a marvel of technological possibilities; in fact, I've said the complete opposite more than once.

LinuxCon is for Linux teams; CES is for everyone, including Linux teams.

I'm not trolling. Everything I'm saying correlates to the OP.

Again, I don't have the ability to post links yet but, when I do, I'll post links to backup everything I'm saying. In the meantime, since you do have the ability to post links, post links that details how Linux servers and supercomputers haven't been hacked, Linux shares a significant chunk of desktop operating system installs alongside Windows, a list of Linux content creation software that are comparable to Windows' content creation software & how many average consumers even know what Linux is.. That last one is a wildcard though; chances are there aren't any articles on that one lol.

 

One problem a lot of people have is that they want to equate/translate what they know about Windows to Linux, and it can be frustrating when it doesn't really exist. Linux/Unix file systems don't equate well to Windows. That is because decades ago IBM and Microsoft decided to sugar coat the complexities of file systems and give us the oh-so-simple "C:" we know and love today,

qemu is the Linux virtual machine environment. In Windows, VMware and VirtualBox are used. In my Ubuntu box, here is the command I used to install and run a Windows 7 Pro virtual machine:

sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -hda win7.img -enable-kvm -cdrom win7.iso -boot d -cpu kvm64 -soundhw hda -localtime

(And it's that syntax exactly - screw up one "space" or "dash" and that dog won't hunt)

And if you think I found that command in a couple of minutes at one site - stay away from Linux! Yeah, it took time and a lot of piecing together. But the one thing I can't post is how great it felt when it worked. I always feel good expanding my PC knowledge. Linux, not easy for a Windows convert, but not impossible either.

 

I don't know about that one.. In my experience, anything pre SP1 was horrible. SP1 W7 is hailed as the greatest thing M$ has ever done; well, it's a toss up between that & SP3 XP. Updates aren't really an option with content creation tools and games as they often both require and benefit from updates. I can't say I've ever seen a stable, non-updated, Windows 7 install. What are your use case scenarios?

 

I have tried many distros through the years was not that impressed .Recently tried Mint and Mint Cinnamon KDE, KDE with plasma and Deepin.
The plasma KDE was a little buggy imo, Mint Cinnamon is excellent KDE seems fine without plasma and Deepin is really innovative all have decent front ends and users don't really have to use command line if one don't want too. Really I urge others to give a distro a try .Dual boot if needed I think many will be surprised how easy Linux is for noobs nowadays. I thank MS for their spying as it urged me to give these excellent distros another look. Really check out Deepin its really well done and Plasma looks very promising.

Dennis

 

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QEmu is a complete and standalone software of its own. You use it to emulate machines.

KVM is a couple of things: first it is a Linux kernel module, Second, KVM is a fork of the Qemu executable.

So it's not a complete standalone like QWmu, and I don't see where they said it's the only Vit.

 

Deepin installation instructional video requires Flash.. That is a major fail.. I hope they address that issue soon..

 

Glad you're running Mint.


Ubuntu also collects user info for creating accounts on not only the Ubuntu distro, but for forums and websites as well. Data collected includes items such as account names, addresses, passwords and credit card info. They also collect various data for error reporting and statistical information. Although most of this is normally expected when using a computer in today’s day, this isn’t the only thing collected by Ubuntu, nor is it the most honest way of collecting information on users.

 

Things like statistical data collection is fine for bug tracking etc. but, there never seems to be any actual improvements that can't be addressed without data collection so, I don't know.. It's a real headscratcher..

 

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