Linux is absolutely ready to spy too! The infrastructure is all in there and non-removable: dbus broacasts anything happening in the system, systemd starts background services by it's own and auto-updates are the norm. Last time I tried Ubuntu, it had popularity-contest installed by default. Apparently the scandal was big enough they removed it. [1]
I do use Gentoo currently, but it's so very hard to keep programs from monitoring what happens in the system via dbus and the only firewall for outgoing connections, OpenSnitch, hard-depends on it. Running every major program in a container is NOT a solution.
So far Linus has kept these things outside the kernel, but he won't live forever.
Windows market share has been declining for some time now.
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Linux is absolutely ready to spy too! The infrastructure is all in there and non-removable: dbus broacasts anything happening in the system, systemd starts background services by it's own and auto-updates are the norm. Last time I tried Ubuntu, it had popularity-contest installed by default. Apparently the scandal was big enough they removed it. [1]
[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/ubuntu-popularity-contes...
It seems Ubuntu is made exactly for these moments, to dismiss GNU/Linux as another spying OS.
If you leave Windows to retain the control for your computing, choose any other GNU/Linux among many. I chose Debian.
I do use Gentoo currently, but it's so very hard to keep programs from monitoring what happens in the system via dbus and the only firewall for outgoing connections, OpenSnitch, hard-depends on it. Running every major program in a container is NOT a solution.
So far Linus has kept these things outside the kernel, but he won't live forever.
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