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submitted 11 months ago by ratboy@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

Since Linux does not seem to work on my laptop (I have spent hours trying to find a fully functioning distro, it doesn't exist yet for Snapdragon), I am curious if there are different things I can do to keep Windows from tracking all of my shit.

I know that's impossible but minimizing it is desirable for me, at least. I don't want CoPilot, I don't want advertisement pop ups, anything like bloatware I fucking hate it, as we all do.

So pls let me know what you do to minimize this shit. Apps, things I should uninstall, settings I should change. If I have step by step instructions I'm not afraid to use command prompts since I got a little bit of experience with that while trying to install Linux.

Thank you all in advance for helping this luddite

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[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Linux support on snapdragon in particular is really bad. It's starting to get there but it's still not reccomended if you need your laptop to actually work 100% of the time.

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