I’m sure it’s not literally all of them, and it’s almost never preinstalled. But available in the repositories.
I’m sure it’s not literally all of them, and it’s almost never preinstalled. But available in the repositories.
Ubuntu has zero telemetry if you flick the switch they show you right after installation. And steam is proprietary software, yet basically every distro ships it in their repos. Your points make no sense.
Is it that bad? I run gnome on two 4k monitors with 100% scaling and large text and it’s great
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Creating your own linux-based nas is a very fun project!
They don’t neccessarily need to, you can pretty much always just look at reviews. Now you can make a point about trusting reviewers, but all that is still better than trusting the manufacturer or microsoft.
You’re right though, there is trust involved, but only if you don’t verify things yourself.
It’s more about privacy. Windows might access your mic to get more data on you for advertising, wouldn’t be anything new.
The problem with those is that it’s often just a piece of plastic, so the microphone isn’t cut off from power. The webcam sees noching, but sound is unaffected.
Hardware switches physically cut power to the device in question and you can take it apart and verify. There is no trust involved.
Get a laptip with a real hardware switch for the cam and the mic. Best peace of mind knowing that they’re really off. Neither tape, nor the non-electrical built-in plastic sliders do that.
damn that’s a lot. Where do you live?
“thousands a year”? How? I thought driving in germany was expensive and I spend about 2 grand a year with most of that being gasoline. My car is decently powerful and I’m a young man, so I’d expect my insurange to be rather high in price. It’s also ‘Vollkasko’, meaning that all damage to my car is covered as well, regardless of how or why that damage occured
My Computers are all reasonably modern and decetly spec’d, resources should not be an issue. Ubuntu also ships with a lot more pre-installed packages than tumbleweed does, but I get your point.
Right, but my tumbleweed install gets 100+ package updates per week, whereas ubuntu gets like 20
Absolutely, but unless you’re on a rolling release, it still won’t be that long. For example, my homelab ubuntu server didn’t get updated for over a month, but when I finally did run updates it finished after no more than a minute. Depends a bit on hardware and network speed though.
Trigger warning! Updating my linux systems takes 15 seconds ;)
German here and no shit - that is how I remember that since the first time someone made that comment
Does what? Sign up for ubuntu pro? For that you just need to go to their website and register. For the homelab stuff you could start small - maybe a linux nas with a few VMs for a pihole or something.
It is for up to 5 devices, so small-scale homelab stuff can be covered without cost.
Agreed