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So for an average user like me, who really doesnât have any problem with WindowsâŚwhy switch?
Well, because Micro$oft canât accept that people donât want to use their garbage browser and desperately does everything like a crazy ex to get you back to use Micro$oft Edge. They also collect all of your data and sell it to whoever pays the most and.
On a Windows system, you donât control the computer, the computer controls you. And they donât allow you to uninstall any of their spyware, if you uninstall Edge and perform a Windows update, guess whatâs gonna be back on your computer. Microsoft Edge is like a virus, it does everything to prevent you from getting rid of it. Edge, Windows or any Microsoft product is just corporate data mining malware.
Linux is the exact opposite of that, itâs a tool meant to empower users to take back their freedom and take back the control over their computers. It allows you to do everything the way you want to, not the way a mega corporation wants you to do it. Data collection practically non-existent, just like corporate influence. You are the one in charge of your computer, you decide what it does, you decide which programs are installed and what services you choose what services you want to use. Linux gives you freedom, whereas Windows gives you ads for Candy Crush in your start menu and a browser that behaves like is malware.
Back then I tried probably 5 or 6 different Linux variants.
Linux from 15-20 years ago canât be compared to modern Linux. Take another shot at it, try out modern distributions like Linux Mint or Fedora, I promise you, itâs much much better than in the 00s.
ButâŚI donât want to use EdgeâŚso I donât.
I really donât give a shit about the data they might be collecting on me, since everyone else is too, and I have yet to see any horrible effects of that.
Windows does what I ask it to do, and I donât feel that itâs forcing me to use it in ways I donât want to. I primarily use my computer for surfing the Internet, watching YouTube, doing a bit of online shopping, and playing two games. I guess I donât really see how switching to Linux could make my experience doing that better in any significant wayâŚand certainly not to any degree that might justify educating myself in how to choose, download, install, set up, and use any of the different options.
My last go-round with Linux ended when I realized that I was just trying distro after distro (is that the right term?) basically looking for something that looked, sounded, and smelled like Windows, and eventually I realized that all I was doing was trying a bunch of shit that wasnât Windows and trying to turn it into Windows. Everything felt like a crappy workaround, tasks that shouldâve been simple and intuitive werenât, and while, yes, Linux did seem to have an android program to anything I wanted to replace, in every case it just seemed like âDiscount Store Syndromeâ, where everything was the slightly worse knock off version of the real thing, only different for the sake of being ânot Windowsâ.
I really donât give a shit about the data they might be collecting on me, since everyone else is too, and I have yet to see any horrible effects of that.
To that I can only reply with the following quote: âArguing that you donât care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you donât care about free speech because you have nothing to say.â â Edward Snowden (the guy who literally risked his life in order to inform the public about the fucked up shit that was and still is going on at the NSA, a real hero)
