Decide to use Linux for privacy,
> pick ubuntu, "uhm actually user, ubuntu is owned by canonical, they put telemtry on everything"
> switch to Fedora, "user, redhat owns fedora, youre using a corpo distro, also SELinux is bad too"
> switch to Arch " uuuuum user, the AUR is the unsafest place to download software, also it breaks every month"
what do you want from me linux friends
All I want is to check your digits and secure the existence of Linux users and a future for Linux distros
To learn about operating systems. Thats it. If you have a threat model for privacy thats heavy theres Tails/Whonix/OpenBSD/VMs blah blah blah
What's your threat model?
So don't use the AUR?
top kek
total privacy but also a completely functional PC for work/browsing/gaming, that cant be hard to achieve right?
install gentoo
Fpbp
Arch is fine. You can check what the AUR stuff has anyways, so it’s not really insecure
You have to compromise on both to a degree, or at least change your habits. Dual booting can help.
Browsing, yes
Work, no
Gaming, no
Get a raspberry pi and do your private stuff there.
>wants total privacy
>posts his thoughts to a public website
Lol. Lmao.
>follow a guide to remove Canonical telemetry
>only an issue for contrarians (not inherently bad) and schizos
>don't install anything you don't trust from the AUR
Raptor systems POWER9 Talos II or Blackbird are open down to the hardware level and allow you to view, edit, sign and compile your own firmware. Problem is they are a niche product because of this and were already expensive prior to the kung-flu and component shortages. They run any modern Linux distro built for ppc64le.
>You have to compromise on both to a degree
would you mind explaining why?
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Gaming need steam, and steam is a social network, and a social network tracks you, you have to learn to partition stuff in hardware level
>schizos flanderizing ganoo/linux as "the privacy OS"
go use openbsd you larping fags, fuck off we're full
Think about it. Digital footprints leave a trail right to you, logging into games, socials, email, paying for services. all these things. If youre going to also want kevin mitnick levels of freedom from prying federal/corporate eyes you cant engage in those behaviours. Either machine-seperate those habits or pick a "pretty good" privacy model. Not to say you cant protect your privacy, youre just not going all the way in a general purpose pc