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Tips for (/tech/ conscious) application users
| But please do not destroy your computer because /tech/fags across the internet say that you have absolutely have to install Linux or else you're just one of the sheeple.
Use whatever tools you currently have at your disposal and, when you can afford to, switch to a better alternative.
TL;DR Use technology. Don't let technology use you.
| Also, if you want to use Google or Microsoft or whatever other evil overlord corporation-owned applications, go for it. Same rules apply. Just have something alternative in case those platforms try to take advantage of you for relying on your apps.
I recommend switching to an independent email provider like Tutanota or Protonmail as your main email, but that's jut me.
| Following your advise I end up again installing gnu/linux. It already is a compromise, since the kernel is not free.
| Whatever you want to and can do, my dude, do it. I have Windows as my OS and I'll probably use it till the end of time, but that doesn't mean I can't dabble in the other OSes. These are all just tools in the end. Doesn't matter how it's done, the results are all that matter.
| It only gets bad when the tools are using us by putting viruses on our computers to mine private information and other stuff. In that case, I would advocate completely removing the tools from the system and/or installing/creating some security system, if possible, that can combat them.
| But if that's impossible, then it is what it is. *shrug emoticon*
| Oh, absolutely watch those accounts that you put your financial information in. They are huge security risks.
| >>322686
Suprising, isn't it? The default linux kernel, which is used in most distros (such as ubuntu) contains unfree binary blobs for support of some closed hardware components.
Because linux development is pretty modular and open, there are free versions where the proprietary components are removed. Freedom focused distros like trisquel make use of it.
Open Source does not always go hand in hand with free software.
| I used dos/nt/windows pretty long time and slowly switched to gnu/linux about 8 years ago.
It took me some years to understand why gnu/linux is seen as techical, practical and ethical superior to windows.
I also realized that windows is only so widely used because of whacky marketing strategies and lobby work.
Microsoft always stayed back in the state of development and makes their system internally more and more unix-alike to increase stability and "security".
| >>323227
This is not the first time I've heard that Wangblows is apparently going towards being unix-like. But I never really saw any examples for that. Where did they ever apply unix philosophy in their shit?
| >>322810
Classic linuxfag, why don't you just go suck Stallman's open source dick and leave the discussion to adults?
| >>323883
Richard Stallman would very much disagree with your statement. Stallman is not, and never was, a proponent of Open Source. He founded the Free Software Foundation and exclusively fights for computer users fundamental 4 freedoms. "Open Source" however never had freedom as their first priority, rather the apparent convenience that is "openly" collaborating on software. There's a distinction and it should be kept in mind.
| >>323883 you say leave it to adults, does that mean you believe you are telling a child so go suck an older mans dick?
| You are all cancerous!!
| >>322572 I don't really understand the problem here. The fact that some part of linux isnt gpl3 licensed doesnt make it like weendos 10 gulag update. I see a lot of people arguing about ubuntu being not fully free but why should i care if 90% of it actually is?
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| If you have or use an app that you rely on for something, try to have an alternative application that fulfills the same purpose and that's owned by a different provider. Decentralize your reliance on one platform whenever possible if what that platform provides is integral (e.g. transaction processing, scheduling, communications, etc.) to your person or business.
If you can and your able to get the same results, install whatever fringe open-source OS is available on the market.