I am largely a beginner, I run mint on my desktop, and have just figured out wine/lutris. But I’m pretty good at following instructions, and researching issues to find a way to fix it.

Micheal Bazzel recommend ClamAV, havent tried it though

If you want a free vpn, the only option is proton vpn. Personally I would recommend using proton vpn the paid version toom get a year subscription for black friday deal.

Considering how successful and profitable the steam deck was considering they have also contributed so much to linux gaming opensource software.

For my brokes ass I’m just going to keep buying secondhand last-gen pixels, but its good for the overall market to get an expansion in grapheneOS support.

me too! mac also works great for video production.

I don’t mind macOS. Micheal Bazzel recommends it and it runs in unix which is basically closed sourced linux

Macbook/Linux user here: People (And organisations/governments) who are reasonably skilled with technology will understand that on hardware which can’t use windows 11, and is stuck with windows 10 without security updates need an alternative operating system. When institutions switch to linux, they will likely contribute to the opensource project, and overall bring the user base numbers up, which will make more software developers add support for linux.

But while this should happen, it might work in microsoft’s favour, (Like when Netflix stopped password sharing) meaning people, who are used to windows will just buy new windows 11 machines, overall increasing microsoft’s company value. Microsoft also supports the Israel military during the genocide, and Bill Gates personally supports Trump and had close ties with Epstein, so it would be best if the general public does an accident, or purposeful boycott. Personally I buy secondhand stuff and put linux on it, if you want new stuff either buy a mac, or buy one of those new linux machines from Lenovo?

Your complaining about linux in the title and windows in the post

I fathom they use it because its what they have always used and it comes with there device. Often people find its linux which takes the extra work.

If you want to use windows for testing, I would recommend something like Atlas OS for debloating: https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas edit: for testing

Still windows but if you remove the bloatware, its “a turd” but it smells less. If that helps. Windows is terrible, I agree, but for those who need to use it, any software like startallback, or something like the chris titus tool should be recommended.

Wow I never thought about it that way.