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switching. turned on monitoring no my mac. after i downloaded a binary from the onion no less, it tried loging into apple to report the software name. It must have seen. .dmg They’re not getting any better over there.

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Just switch away from the Garbage on your private computer

https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/

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Go atomic instead, assuming your needs are relatively limited. Here are the Fedora variants:

That way you don’t have to care about what’s going on under the hood, you just install your apps as flatpaks and you’re off to the races.

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Was looking at Silverblue and then found Universal Blue. Much easier: https://universal-blue.org/

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Oh, good lord. Have you met my 82-year old father?

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He probably only uses a web browser, so as long as you make it look familiar, he probably wouldn’t notice.

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I set up my 80 year old mother with linux

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Set him up with the KDE Environment. It’s quite similar to Windows

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So glad I don’t use Windows anymore. Microsoft has lost the plot.

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Microsoft never had any different plot, it was always about this, from the very start.

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Nice of Microsoft to give Linux a popularity boost

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6% marketshare here we go!

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And this is why I finally dumped Windows on my personal devices. My work laptop is the only machine I use that still runs Windows, and I literally never touch it at home unless I work from home (extremely rare).

I’m even raising my kids with Linux - the “family computer” (an ancient A1278 Macbook Pro from 2009) they use for homework runs Linux Mint, and does so really well.

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