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>Well, the biggest advantages of Linux are that the OS vendor is not itself malicious (in particular, does not collect telemetry, push advertisements or attempt
by tw04 3y ago
>Well, the biggest advantages of Linux are that the OS vendor is not itself malicious (in particular, does not collect telemetry, push advertisements or attempt to restrict your use of the system like Microsoft and Apple do)
Except they do:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubuntu-pro-terminal-ad https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubuntu-pro-terminal-ad
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...
- devit 3y agoThat is easily solved by using Debian instead of Ubuntu.
- askonomm 3y agoSo then what you meant to say was that _some_ Linux distros are not malicious.
- galleywest200 3y agoThe distributions maybe, but the producers of the Linux kernel are not.
- tw04 3y agoI doubt the kernel maintainers of Windows or MacOS are involved in the advertisements inserted into the GUI of either OS.
- calamari4065 3y agoThe vast, overwhelming majority of them, yes.
- hereme888 3y agoThat's seriously ridiculous. "Ubuntu let users know about automatic updates in the terminal". It's incomparable to what MSFT does.
- tw04 3y agoLet them know about automatic updates? So you didn’t read either link. One was advertising Amazon, the other was advertising their paid support service. NEITHER was telling users about automatic updates.
- hereme888 3y agoYes, a tiny, inobtrusive "hey, we offer paid support/automatic updates" after doing a terminal update.