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

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  1. T-S

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  2. gorski

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    Ermmm, this one was not plugged by Linus himself (he admitted he failed) for some 11 years, if memory serves, from the article...
     
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  3. T-S

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    Which, in turn, means that likely it was very hard to spot or to take advantage of it.

    Whatever it is, something like that happens surely everywhere. Coders are humans (at least they are supposed to be :D) they made mistake, no matter if working on open or closed source SW.

    On open source SW the errors are supposed to be easier to spot but that works better on small programs, clearly there aren't that much people that looks at the kernel sources taking it as an hobby.
     
  4. gorski

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    Initially, he said, it was hard to trigger... for a while... but then...
     
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    #865 fr40, Oct 23, 2016
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    i dont know but here freebsd looks more solid, but repos is around 52GB! lol!
     
  6. Cheese_in_a_Can

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    Learning Ubuntu was definitely hard for me. But I wanted to learn it, so for me, not impossible.
     
  7. Espionage724

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    What broken distro were you using to have all those issues happening?
     
  8. Dngrsone

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    Or what era... this sounds like 20th-century Linux (not that Win was much of a picnic then either).
     
  9. MikalE

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    I have a dual-boot Lenovo T520. On the 500GB SSD resides Windows 7 Pro, and on the 500GB spinner drive in the Ultrabay resides Mint. I thought i would get a lot of use out of both systems on the same machine.

    I've booted the Mint drive three times maybe in the last 18 months. I'm thinking of reformatting it, or removing the drive and replacing it with a blank drive for storage.

    I was rather excited to have two OS's on the same machine, but the novelty wore off pretty quick.
     
  10. Tiger-1

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    ^^
    well is better you think more imo, because Linux Mint rocks also dude:)so everyday we learn new things:g:
     
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  11. gorski

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    So, the new Mate version is seriously improved?

    Must try, thanx!:cool:
     
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  12. prashantsays

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    i installed linuxmint on a usb stick and i would say that it was worth installing, my privacy exists in linuxmint and there is a full community to help me out with anything for free, i love this :tasty:
     
  13. free1975yuly

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    I bought a laptop but cannot install successfully Linux on it...I tried many distributions, no good luck.I tried Unix, still no luck.
     
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    you do not tell us what laptop it is, and what distro you tried. if the lappy is not too fancy[ high end stuff, i mean] linux mint should work very well.
    i installed on an old lenovo, with no problems at all. it booted from cd, slowly, and installed on the harddisk. i used it happily ever after. worth a try,imho.
     
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  17. free1975yuly

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    Linux Mint:won't install properly: the coolers working hard after instalation same with OpenSuse;
    Ubuntu 16.10 stuck at Ubuntu screen;
    Manjaro: Won,t install at all
    GhostBSD: installs but no accereration hardware;
    TrueOS: installs but the same: without graphics accereration and without backlight keyboard.
    My specs are : Asus GL752V ;I76700 HQ, Intel HD 530 and nvidia 960M :Intel dual-band wireless AC 8260.
     
  18. Tiger-1

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    very strange dude :g: because I run Linux Mint 17.03 on laptop LG C400 of 2010 that came with Windows 7 and NO problems til now, same using PCBSD also no problems you already see in Asus forums something about Linux O.S.?
     
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    Try Lubuntu, if that don't work then you have some weird issues.
     
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  20. free1975yuly

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    I did not.Calling at Asus they told me simply: No other OS is supported than Windows. Any OS other than Windows if installs the above problems persists. Sorry for off-topic guys but I don't want to open a new thread for these....troubles!