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You can do all the privacy measures in the world, but if the people you talk to are using spyware then it's all out the window. (literally Windows, get it?)

This video breaks down some of the basic reasons to switch to Linux so you can convince your friends: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-linux-beats-windows/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Jfc, Linux isn't a religion, we don't have to proselytize. We aren't any fucking different to call anyone "normie", which is bullshit to begin with.

You wanna spread Linux? You use it, and if someone asks, you talk about it in an honest and friendly manner. That's all anyone needs to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If anything, that video makes me want to quit Linux because of how much cringe it made me feel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Friends? If i had friends I wouldn't be using Linux, would I?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That voice was really difficult to listen to. And then talking about how Bill Gates shoves left wing media down our throats and uses msnbc as an example lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your service, now we don't have to continue into the video

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so.... bill gates is on the right now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's a capitalist and one of the richest people in the world. Nothing about him fits the bill of a leftist. I think you're coming at this with the US's perception of the left, like the democratic party, which wouldn't be considered left almost anywhere else in the world.

Linus Torvalds is a bit more of a leftist, and the whole ideology of Linux is pretty fitting for the left.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago