I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open source software and an operating system without any of the bullshit that comes with Windows, but most of the open source stuff I have is on my android and fairly easy to install. Installing and using Linux just feels like it’ll be a whole different beast that’ll eat up most of my time and I’m kind of intimidated by it.

TL;DR Linux scawy, how does a barely computer literate scrub like me who’s used nothing but windows since the dawn of their life get started with Linux?

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
    31·
    7 months ago

    Why? Because it asks the user if they would like to send feedback to Canonical during setup? Because that’s the only privacy issue I can remember re: Canonical, after their weird Amazon lens was quickly killed off.

    • refalo@programming.dev
      2·
      7 months ago

      Why is asking for feedback a bad thing? IMO it’s better than just being on by default, and still gives the developers an opportunity to at least get SOME useful feedback instead of all the people that screech about how telemetry should be banned entirely. I would bet money none of those people are professional developers.

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Why is asking for feedback a bad thing? IMO it’s better than just being on by default, and still gives the developers an opportunity to at least get SOME useful feedback instead of all the people that screech about how telemetry should be banned entirely. I would bet money none of those people are professional developers.

        Indeed. Programmers really love feedback to improve their applications. I bet that everyone who installs apps for iOS or Android from the Google Play Store will have lots of apps that have crash-a-lytics, or whatever it is called, installed.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I don’t think it’s bad to ask; even Debian asks you for feedback. Ubuntu, Debian, and a bunch of other distros are doing the right thing by making this feedback opt-in, but for some people even that is already too much.

        I have no idea what supposed privacy issues Ubuntu has these days. Snap is certainly A Controversial Thing, but it’s been years since they made a deal with Amazon.