I was on windows 11 for a while before finally kicking it. Linux mint is my poison!
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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Took me a while, but I moved to Mint as well. Getting it to 'feel' right after 30 years on windoze is the hard part, but Im getting there
I'm ashamed to say that it took me installing Windows 11 on my mother in law's laptop while running a pihole and seeing the amount of requests to shady data brokers the install wizard made to finally move to Linux.
If I had known how seemless everything is, especially with distros like Bazzite, I would have switched way sooner.
Now only if there were a nice alternative to Android. I might get a Fairphone with Ubuntu touch.
A fairphone with PostmarketOS! That's my plan right now.
AOSP still exists
I would get Lineage OS
Yes but open source development for Android is made harder and harder every year by google, just look at the ongoing sideloading discussion. A working real Linux based OS for phones would be the holy grail. LineageOS is great and I am using it, but for real privacy you need a lot more.
Linux doesn't really hold a torch to Lineage OS or Android.
Lineage OS is great since they projects maintains foss replacements for the Google proprietary ones. It is still based on up stream AOSP so you get modern Android without all the google junk. The privacy, security and simplicity of Android is really top notch.
I am well aware where LineageOS stands against Linux. But my point still stands - LineageOS has no focus on privacy and AOSP is under threat, again.
LineageOS without "Google junk" is useless for 95% of the userbase, as they miss out very basic features Google outsourced of AOSP, such as Network Location Provider, Push Notifications or even an app store. I am not even talking about Play Integrity.
The privacy, security and simplicity of Android is really top notch.
- LineageOS is not private, even if it sends way less data home than Android (if you don't sideload Play Services)
- depending on your threat level an unlocked bootloader is not what I would call "top notch secure"
- getting around a lot of the issues I talked about with extra stuff like microg, DNS blocking, Aurora Store etc. is not what I would call simple
maintains foss replacements for the Google proprietary ones
Not true, see Play Services
What makes you think that Linux is some how going to fix all of those issues? I'm not sure what you are expecting Linux to do. "Linux" is pretty broad and can mean many different things.
I'm not against mobile Linux like Postmarket OS. However, I've yet to see anything that is even close to competing with Android. I think we need a entirely new platform that has a ecosystem designed for portable hassle free devices. The biggest issue with a new ecosystem is funding which is why I think it makes sense to base off of AOSP.
i had the misfortune yesterday of setting up a new Windows 11 PC for a non-profit that I do some volunteer work with. the amount of times that it re-enabled OneDrive, after I had already disabled it, was infuriating. In less than an hour, it re-connected my credentials to the stupid fucking machine half a dozen times and began to download my personal files, without anything resembling consent.
The experience was enough to finally get me to set up my own NextCloud instance so that I can get rid of all cloud files (OneDrive, iCloud, and google drive) for good. Fuck these fucking companies and their enshittified products.
Needing an account to set up an OS is such bullshit. I would do anything to avoid that.
No doubt!
This needs the opposite with a Glass of WINE
Amazing
I put up with them for longer than I should have, I admit, but taking screenshots of everything I do made me jump ship. It's bad enough that it isn't opt-in, but I imagine all choice will be removed within three years.
Welcome to linux, brother
That's what i love about Microsoft, they just keep pumping out excellent reasons to switch away from windows!
I switched after a forced win10 update bricked my computer for the third time in less than a month π
This is exactly why I started using mint this weekend. I figured it's time I get comfortable with Linux because even though microsuck says recall can be disabled, I 10000% guarantee once the windows 10 deadline passes and they get as many people over to windows 11 as possible we'll suddenly see the "oops, it's required now. Can't disable it or you break windows!" message.
serious question: is the implication that Linux users are teetotalers? Or am I overthinking this?
nah lmao
No. The original meme is about not drinking specificly the day before the first of may
No. The original poster was an early soviet anti-drinking poster. One thing that people forget is that the USSR in its early days actually had alcohol prohibition. It was lifted under Stalin, however.
Alcoholism was just as big a problem in Tsarist Russia as it is in Russia today.
Amongst socialists back then there was a big prohibition movement. The Scottish Prohibition party, who had one MP until the 30s was a firmly socialist party and there was a form relationship between the Temperance movement in The UK and Socialist ideals. Basically the reason was because they saw alcohol as a tool against the working class wherein the ruling class kept them addicted and drunk to prevent them from self improvement while making money off them.
Even today, a lot of Anarchists are straight edge for similar reasons, plus the idea that drinking and drugs means they close control of their faculties and this, autonomy.
We are teetotaling proprietary operating systems, so yes
We are teetotaling anything properitary. (Or just u am.)
I am never trusting any properitary software for anything ever again and always assume the worst.
Obviously overthinking
Het!
Dude doesn't want his steak sloppy? Guess he's not a piece of shit.