merlin

Android isn’t linux though. That’s like saying MacOS is BSD.

I know this is a joke but here comes my two cents:

1. Create a hidden folder called .free_energy_designs
2. Put some random images of pyramids in there
3. Use VeraCrypt to encrypt with secret second encryption layer where you store your porn

FOSS isn’t about building from source though. It’s about making software accessible without restrictions on who uses it and how it’s used.

By the way Gentoo is also giving you convenience compared to Slackware or building Linux from scratch.

I can see it embedded on kbin if that’s what you mean.

Certainly you can’t be safe from this, you can just try to minimize the possibility of it happening by reducing the data you share to a minimum.

Yeah I guess the analogy is not entirely fitting. Thinking about how corporations use my data still creeps me out though haha.

But Linux actually is easy and a lot of fun!

It’s just that choosing a distro like Arch that requires you to decide what software you want to install might be a bad idea for someone who doesn’t know yet what software they need.

Installing a distro like openSUSE is straight forward and easy through their graphical installer, albeit not exactly quick (at least not compared to Arch) and allows you to explore Linux at your own pace.

Using the SteamDeck was also very easy but maybe that was just because I daily drive Arch? At least getting EmuDeck to run is just point and click.

They don’t need to sell that information to be untrustworthy, they just need to lose it.

This is how people steal your identity or buy stuff with your credit card even though you only gave that information to big corporations. It has happened a lot and is still happening.

As someone who has worked on large databases I can confidently say that every single piece of information the company had on all of it’s customers was available at my fingertips in clear text except for the passwords which I could have cracked in the thousands per second if they had less than 9 characters, which a lot of passwords did because the requirement was at least 8.

The only way the company can prevent me from doing malicious things with your data is if they only hire people with a moral compass and paying them enough. And the first one isn’t exactly easy.

There is not a lot you can do as a consumer to not get taken advantage of except minimizing the amount of data a company has on you because they don’t care enough and you will care once the police comes knocking on your door because of a crime someone did with your identity.

I wholeheartedly agree that people massively oversell gaming on Linux.

If you’re lucky though you might be in a position where most of the games you play not only run on Linux but actually run better than on Windows, even non natively through Proton, how ever that black magic works.

I still dual boot Windows though for those few outliers which is annoying, especially when it wants to update itself after you didn’t use it in 4 months and everything runs very slow.