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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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[-] kota@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Damn yea tricky, looks like mainline linux patches only landed a few months ago so it'll probably be a while until there's actually good distro support.

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

will be waiting impatiently for it to roll out. I know it's all volunteer based, so I am grateful for folks who are working on it at all. I also stupidly bought a new oneplus phone, not realizing how much time it takes to roll out new operating systems and such. I was so stoked to switch to LineageOS or whatever but alas, I am stuck with Google for a while

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