If you want privacy you need to run Linux

[SecularMotion]

I recently bashed Windows for being too darn snoopy, but you know what? It’s not just Windows. Ever since Yosemite came out, Apple’s macOS has been just as untrustworthy. As for Chrome OS, Android and iOS, come on! They’re all built around cloud services; by design, they share everything you do with third-party services. What’s the answer? Desktop Linux.

With President Trump considering asking foreign visitors to disclose all websites and social media sites they visit and Jeff Sessions, Trump’s attorney general pick, wanting cryptographic back doors, I think privacy is more important than ever.

True, I’ve been praising desktop Linux for ages, but privacy is a new reason to use it. In the past, while Windows had lousy security, at least it didn’t report into headquarters. Now it does. So do almost all operating systems.

Chrome OS and Android, for example, are Linux distributions, but they perform at full power only with an internet connection. Google makes its money from your information.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3163627/linux/if-you-want-privacy-you-need-to-run-linux.html

[hlthe2b]

1. bookmarked or later... I need to learn how to use linux...

I don't know how hard it would be to switch--a bit intimidating...

[mikeysnot]

3. Ubuntu is your friend

Haven't done an install in a while but was really easy.

https://www.ubuntu.com/

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[rogue emissary]

4. Been using windows for games but time for games is over.

Back to Linux I go.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Been running Linux x 6 or more years now

on all 5 computers,2 of which are laptops.
Have not spent one penny for programs, etc like you have to do with Windows, no trackers, no spying.
Linux is self cleaning and does not bog down by storing pages all over the place.

NEVER had a virus.
have had a couple of suspicious webpages, which I did not click on.

we don't do Windows type games, I do a couple brainy on line games, Linux has some nice solitaire-MaJong games, pretty ones.
We keep up dates via automatic notifications ( "software updater&quot and many online /fire fox and Chromium browser apps work fine.

big secret...Mr. Dixie is the hands on puter guy.

Only downside: Unbuntu 14 something seems to not like Evolution email program, but then, neither do I, I use Thunderbird now.

Never ever ever go back to Windows...open source is so much easier to deal with.