Important note about Apple:
Apple is making a living by being a gatekeeper to your data. They do not keep it private to only you, they do not keep it to themselves.
However they do not share it for free with other companies. Make no mistake: they are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.
Every non-rookie sports person is a veteran.
Why does the gaming industry constantly try to gatekeep certain language?
Get a more interesting hobby.
Yeah…wifi.
Good luck!
Linus Torvolds and the folks at kernel.org work to continually improve the kernel and ready it for each release cycle.
Ubuntu and other distro maintainers take that work and make sure that they are shipping to you a compiled kernel(s) that dependably works with all other software on their distribution.
Maybe someone close to him has a hot glue gun.
Be the only user that can run code as root.
Microsoft and their “trusted partners” do not deserve closer access to my hardware than I have.
iOS is more private in the sense that they limit access to your data to other companies so they can continue be the doorman.
It’s the internet, mate. The world is your oyster.
Get friends that only game on linux.
Linux compatibility or I send it back!
ZFS? pf?
The tooling is just superior in some cases.
I use IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono
You have to manually manage new kernel branches with the manjaro-settings-manager.
Lots of people get told “it’s arch with good defaults! Just sudo pacman -Syu and you’re good!”
…which leads to them eventually breaking their systems and blaming manjaro.
No rolling release is appropriate for people who can’t RTFM.
6 years on my manjaro install, zero problems.
You can put a myriad of setup and administration options into the GUI and most people still have no interest in them. These people just have no interest in using a computer like that. They “just want it to work”. It’s not a CLI v. GUI problem, it’s one of assumed responsibility.
This is an inherent limitation of “free as in freedom” software.
“Free as in freedom” really only refers to developers. The non-developers are beholden to whoever packages and distributes their software for them. We Linux users who aren’t system developers let the “distro maintainers” do the developer work for us. That’s why a distro’s website is full of mission statements and declarations of philosophy–it’s how we decide who to trust.
And it’s the same for the “non-nerds” with system administration. Businesses hire admins to handle their internal software and networks, and at home people let Apple, Microsoft or Google take increasingly more control over their devices so that they aren’t responsible for getting it all working.
Apple’s success came from Microsoft’s negligence. Too many people had Windows XP computers at home wrecked with toolbars and spyware and garbage.
And people gladly left for a walled garden platform that locked down everything and didn’t require them to administer their own systems.
The biggest success in the Linux world has been Chromebooks and Android, where Google administers the system for the user.
Most people don’t choose linux because they can’t administer their own system. A system that lets them administer however they want has no appeal to them. They instinctively know they can’t handle that responsibility. They need their hands held.
Linux is based on unix, which was an operating system designed to run on computers like the PDP-11 of the 1970s.
The problem is that computers have changed a lot, and Richie and Thompson couldn’t perfectly forecast all those changes. Most notably, it predates the internet.
Anyways, computers changed and so systemd was invented to copy MacOS Tiger’s launchd service model. Here’s the only video you need to watch on the subject
I think this would be great.
But, you’re going to be hosting a lot of images.
You should use a VPN or an tracker blocker like DuckduckGo. This is the only way to slow down the information you are sending out. You might not be able to completely stop Google and Samsung from tracking you, but there’s no reason to share yourself with all other data harvesting services.
You have to obfuscate the info that makes it through by using multiple, unlinked Google accounts that let you put separate components of your life into separate silos.