Not that simple. If you don't want to know how things work and understand what computers and programs is, even Linux would not help you.
What is the point of running Linux and installing all that proprietary crap - social apps, messengers, games, damned Zoom, Chromium/Firefox based browsers, "file scanners", etc? It's like installing a steel door in a house and ginving out keys for everybody.
Freedom is not in Linux, it is in your head and readiness to study. Yes, you can't get freedom on Windows/macOS even if you are 80lvl computer geek. But Linux is absolutely not enough. If you are not ready to immidiately forget all your Win/Mac habits and beliefs, you are already failed, and no Linux/BSD/whatever will help you.
Ask yourself, are you ready to delete all your Twitter/Facebook/Whatsapp/Google/etc. accounts right now and forget about them forever? Are you ready to read manuals and use completely different, but way more efficient tools and ways for doing usual tasks? If not, it is pointless to even try to install Linux. If yes, install it, learn and you will definitely get freedom and privacy.
Youre partially right, but what do you use to browse the web. Also you can set those apps up in a sandbox environment and use them. Or on a phone you can set your phone to have multiple profiles and use them completely separate from your important data.
Note: I am not shilling for those apps, they fucking suck and deserve to go bankrupt. Anyone and everyone should stay away.
Mostly NetSurf, and for damned Web2.0 I use firejailed Firefox with heavily cleaned everything with url in about:config with uBlock.
Also you can set those apps up in a sandbox environment and use them.
The main problem is not that apps can do something on your computer. Problem is with using that proprietary service.
Or on a phone you can set your phone to have multiple profiles and use them completely separate from your important data.
If your phone runs IOS or Android - you are already doomed, It is not about important data, you could even run a VM with clean Android without any data and install only that app, but the point is that using that app you support that service and pay with your privacy, contacts, data and everything for it. Even if you never send anything except short text messages, that is your friends and contacts who will provide your photos, your details and nearly everything about you and BigBrother easily connect all that info to you by your phone number and contact list. Problem is in participation, not in an application.
Not that simple. If you don't want to know how things work and understand what computers and programs is, even Linux would not help you.
What is the point of running Linux and installing all that proprietary crap - social apps, messengers, games, damned Zoom, Chromium/Firefox based browsers, "file scanners", etc? It's like installing a steel door in a house and ginving out keys for everybody.
Freedom is not in Linux, it is in your head and readiness to study. Yes, you can't get freedom on Windows/macOS even if you are 80lvl computer geek. But Linux is absolutely not enough. If you are not ready to immidiately forget all your Win/Mac habits and beliefs, you are already failed, and no Linux/BSD/whatever will help you.
Ask yourself, are you ready to delete all your Twitter/Facebook/Whatsapp/Google/etc. accounts right now and forget about them forever? Are you ready to read manuals and use completely different, but way more efficient tools and ways for doing usual tasks? If not, it is pointless to even try to install Linux. If yes, install it, learn and you will definitely get freedom and privacy.
Youre partially right, but what do you use to browse the web. Also you can set those apps up in a sandbox environment and use them. Or on a phone you can set your phone to have multiple profiles and use them completely separate from your important data.
Note: I am not shilling for those apps, they fucking suck and deserve to go bankrupt. Anyone and everyone should stay away.
Mostly NetSurf, and for damned Web2.0 I use firejailed Firefox with heavily cleaned everything with url in about:config with uBlock.
The main problem is not that apps can do something on your computer. Problem is with using that proprietary service.
If your phone runs IOS or Android - you are already doomed, It is not about important data, you could even run a VM with clean Android without any data and install only that app, but the point is that using that app you support that service and pay with your privacy, contacts, data and everything for it. Even if you never send anything except short text messages, that is your friends and contacts who will provide your photos, your details and nearly everything about you and BigBrother easily connect all that info to you by your phone number and contact list. Problem is in participation, not in an application.