Given the path of the US right now, this is the wisest decision any American can make.
This. Also, get a VPN service, like Nord that's preferably not based in the US. Also, Microsoft is literally installing spyware on your computer already. (CoPilot and Recall). They would have NO problems turning over your computer data to the Trump regime on their whims.
I highly recommend mull and learning how to use vopono, it's an incredible combination.
Indeed. Wise decision for everyone else too.
It’s a bit more urgent for US Citizens.
Why don’t they upgrade to a Canadian OS then?
Arch started as Canadian. GhostBSD maybe?
OpenBSD.
I always thought OpenBSD was Quebec. I just learned now that it is based out of Calgary. Who knew?
Soon the filthy commie anfifa OS will be made illegal there.
While true, desktops and laptops mean nothing now. Most people dont even have anything other than a phone.
If youre using android or ios, youre not private and you are being tracked 24/7.
Sadly my s23 only runs android and Linux phones aren't good enough yet.
Every gamer does a sideways glance ;).
GrapheneOS for Pixels, you can be completely degoogled.
Where can I get a non-Google kernel?
Up till recently it was opensource right. But I'm sure those days are numbered, they are going to block side loading and then everything will probably go binary blobs
I don’t even do email on my phone. I like the large monitor that doesn’t require glasses to see. Two monitors even.
I derive no joy from watching video on a phone.
I mean, sure, in terms of OS choice.
I think there are some other decisions that give it a run for its money if you don't limit the scope to computing, though.
Given the state of the united states, and the world in general, gaining control over your personal privacy and security are fundamental to any other initiative you undertake
I fully flipped over every device in my house off windows about a week or two ago, and so far so good!
I've been daily driving linux on my personal laptop since 2009 (16 years now!?) for school / work / personal work-esque stuff, and my work laptop is now OSX. A few weeks ago I flipped my gaming machine from windows to popOS and been quite pleasantly surprised at how well gaming on Linux is these days. So much so, I convinced my wife to let me flip her gaming machine to Linux as well.
The only hiccup I've recently had was having to deal with windows-only, non-steam software. Ie. insta360. Luckily, there are compatibility layers / emulators I can use to be able to run it. It's slow, but good enough.
At this point, there's no good reason for me to go back to Windows or anything Microsoft. It's even become a red flag when I hear a business is using Microsoft's products. I want to hope Microsoft gets a wake up call at some point soon and turns the ship around, but I think they've got too many big-company deals to have to worry about their consumer products being shite.
Yeah the Insta360 desktop app runs through WINE just fine!
Have you got hardware acceleration working? I'll often take half a TB of 360 footage on a trip, and stitching it on Linux via Bottles isn't viable due to me not having hardware acceleration working. It takes days on my current Linux setup, as compared to less than a day with HW acceleration on Windows.
I have been just considering getting a Mac Mini M4 for 450 bucks next time it's on sale and using that as a DaVinci/Insta360 render server.
Have you figured out how to get hardware acceleration working? Often I'll record half a TB of 360 footage on a trip, and stitching it takes forever on Linux with a compatibility layer.
There are unfortunately still useful things that only work on Windows, which is why I still begrudgingly dual boot. I like the idea of ReactOS, but development is slow-going and it’s still only alpha quality at the moment.
Agreed. Remote desktop from Linux to windows with multiple monitor support sucks. Laggy and full of quirks, that make the options unworkable. Which sucks cause I work home office a lot and remoting to my work PC does not work well.. So I still have windows at home just for this.
I hear ya!
Same, I also run Linux only for gaming. Steam Deck convinced me too.
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