You know what, fuckwits?
I do have something to hide.
It's my fucking life, and I don't want Microshaft knowing every detail about everything I do.
Huh? You can't argue with this?
I fucking thought so. I dare you to make yourself look like a fucking retard online.
BSD master race signing out.
On a side note, where are you on here?
>>51801182
what is it that makes centos semi-patrician or whatever the fuck pipe man is?
Do you really think that anyone here gives half a shit over your stupid rambling?
>>51801211
Shut up cunt at least I'm not making another desktop thread
Stop trying to silence privacy nigger
i use lubuntu, can do all except heavy gaming
fedora is shit
>>51801218
This kind of shitposting is even worse than desktop threads. Your post is literally useless whereas I could at least take some advice from desktop fags.
>It's my fucking life, and I don't want Microshaft knowing every detail about everything I do.
>Huh? You can't argue with this?
Then use something that isn't Windows and learn to deal with issues that you don't have in it.
No one here is trying to stop you using Lincux or BSD, and you're just making yourself look like an edgy teen.
>>51801182
this is a bad image
>>51801252
>deal with issues that you don't have in it.
Shit wording, I mean issues that aren't in Windows.
I agree with your concept of "OS nirvana" OP.
>>51801182
>i am a basement dweller with no friends that has nothing exciting going on for himself
>I am going to act like my privacy is important and install a meme
>>51801182
Huh it's really weird, I've never seen this pic before but I just picked up my first pipe (briar fe.ro) and it describes me too well.
>>51801182
>>51801332
basically what he said... I mean really does Microsoft a multi billion dollar company really care about little old you with your little transgender porn stash? inside your music folder nicknamed mix-tape?, like seriously there are billions of other people they care about and the chances are very low they are caring about you
>>51801374
>Pipe
Fucking neckbeard.
>>51801376
fuck me anon couldn't have said better
>>51801376
Not to mention the fact that there's no such thing as completely private software. Using Linux isn't going to stop the government or anyone with enough money.
>>51801376
I called it when the whole hype with windows 10 is botnet began soon after his release that it will not have an impact in any way on people's privacy. If it had we would see headlines such as "Windows 10 helped identify pedophiles around the world and helped bring them in", "After the launch and transition to Windows 10 piracy has significantly been decreased", "After a database breach many have had their information and files collected by Windows 10 be publicly released". Alas, none such news nor similar news appeared.
Another thing i don't understand is why people worry so much about the Google botnet as well.
>personalized adds
Aside from the fact that all adds can be blocked through uBlock/AdBlock services i would rather see adds if i weren't to use the aforementioned services that are somehow relevant to me. Would much rather see "Hey there's an offer on amazon for this thing you looked up", rather then "Grab this new collection of mascara for whatever price"
>they read my emails
Pretty sure that 90% of people complaining about this are people where newsletters represent 99% of their activity in their emails and the other 1% shit no one will ever care about.
But but anon... >muh privacy
Get real!
>>51801182
I use Windows 7 because of this. And because anything newer is a mess in terms of design and usability. I have my own pictures/videos and other personal data that I don't feel comfortable in giving it away to the US govt. Last thing I want is knowing that some neckbearded sysadmin is jerring off to my pictures.
>>51801591
i guess the difference between you and me is that i don't want to be marketed to at all. i don't want my identity and metadata commoditized, analyzed, and sold so that companies can try to convince me to buy more shit i don't want or need. another big issue is who has access to my data? whenever this issue is brought up, we like to abstract the companies into these faceless monolithic concepts as if they don't have tens of thousands of employees of varying moral fibre, some of which who have direct access to my data in various forms, allowing them intimate access to my life. if you believe there's any meaningful oversight to the access of your data by these employees then you're hopelessly naive as well. i don't trust them, i see no reason to, they aren't benevolent or altruistic, they're corporations first and foremost who willingly cooperate with government organizations proven to be more than willing to undermine your sense of safety, privacy, and freedom for unclear and possibly malicious ends.
don't defend google or microsoft, because they wouldn't defend you.
>>51801667
>undermine your sense of safety, privacy, and freedom for unclear and possibly malicious ends
I guess your sense of safety and privacy is undermined as much as you believe it to be since there is next to nothing tangible to prove they are compromised. Adds are the first thing. I can't think of the next.
I work for a software development company in the sales department. Our marketing scheme involves sending emails to clients within a campaign and monitor their whole activity in relation to that email. If they opened it, where they clicked, where they paused the videos even. Based on their activity they receive a certain scoring and based on that scoring we contact them later on. Highest scoring means more interest. This seems pretty invasive the way i laid it out and looks like a great deal of privacy breaching when in fact all it does is change our speech a little when we contact them back. Insted of going like "Hey, do you work in this field and if so have you heard about our application, it does this, this and that" we just go "Hi, following a campaign we sent you some emails that informed you about our product, and we were wondering if something was unclear and if we can discuss an offer".
The software is meant to help their activity a whole deal, it practically sells itself. They're left to decide whether they buy it or not.
All of this applied for a company. Like i said earlier, no one cares about your activity when you have next to nothing meaningful to attribute to your name. If i am wrong please exemplify...
>>51801182
>implying manjaro is not worst linux distro
>>51801772
well meme'd
Imagine some 8 to child who upgraded to windows 10 because of Minecraft. His homepage was set to Google automatically and his isp filters the web for him.
Microsoft, Google and Facebook are going to log his entire life. You see it happening now, everyone's pushing for more power to these companies, banning encryption, tightening copyright and pornography laws, logging all web traffic they can and so on. While we're not at that point yet, these companies have time to get harmful laws to effect.
One misclick by that child at any point of his life might lose him his job or land him in jail. Unlike you, he wasn't born free.
This if the future you chose.
>>51801885
No internet until 12 yes old house rules
>>51801182
>I do have something to hide.
What do you have to hide?
Are you a terrorist?
Are you a pedophile?
>>51801885
>Microsoft, Google and Facebook are going to log his entire life.
So what?
>One misclick by that child at any point of his life might lose him his job or land him in jail.
Then don't missclick, what are you, a terrorist?
>>51801182
You say you have something to hide, that means you are already a dinosaur. The generation of kids who are just starting school are being taught that freedom of thought is freedom FROM the self, not freedom OF the self. To have anything to hide means you must be concealing something ugly about yourself that is detrimental to society. We all need to hide our credit card numbers and passwords. That isnt an issue, but hiding your depraved masturbation fantasies is detrimental as it means you are acting deviantly. Better to share them with a confidant and get all your dark shit out into the light where everyone can see it. Dont hide the fact you want gay sex with 10 albanian goats. Speak to a doctor get help
>>51801182
This image is basically me.
I was in every of these stages and can say what gets the job done.
I started with kubuntu, then went through every *buntu. Then I used fedora and centos. Once was a time to install gentoo and so I did. Debian was somewhere in between, slack too.
And what gets the job done?
I use ubuntu with unity on my laptop, because I never encounter problems with compability wherever I go, it boots in 3s so its always ready. Gentoo is really fun and there are things you can't do on other distros. I'm still using it on few of my machines. Arch has basically nothing to offer what gentoo does not have. #! is dead. Puppy is good to throw on pendrive. Debian is just a base for ubuntu, even ubuntu server is as much stable as debian, but more updated. Fedora is kill. Linux mint is a gimmick, which will dissappear like #!.
I'm at whatever gets the job done (Xubongu)
>>51801995
>and there are things you can't do on other distros.
can you give any examples?
>>51801772
Anon, how much do you get paid for every post?
>>51802059
Basically custom build flags. You can change 2 things in one conf file, update and you have systemd and everything working with it.
Another basically 2-character change and you have no X, only wayland.
Also everything is faster and you can seriously feel it.
Once I red someone calling firefox mozarella foxfire. So I made one custom .ebuild file with script changing every firefox occurence to foxfire and mozilla to mozarella in source code. Without any effort I had custom mozarella updateing normally with whole system.
>>51801253
this
I'm bothered every time I see it that it uses Dobbs but doesn't put Slackware under it.
>>51801182
>CentOS
