Let's talk about Software conspiracy

Personally, I will help anyone to install Linux on their PC. Apple and Microsoft cannot be trusted. Do not use either. You can install Linux on virtually anything. Even a refrigerator. Software that is closed source cannot be trusted. You cannot see their code. Don't assume they are nice and don't spy on you, sell your data, etc. The NSA have used Microsoft Security updates to gain access to targets for example. Utorrent used to botnet people and use their collective processing power to mine bitcoins. Games like LoL are connected to giant Chinese companies that are terrible and most definitely cannot be trusted. Look ir up. Don't let cognitive dissonance make you think its not a big deal, or that they don't care about you. Or that "whatever, just use what you like." No. Stop using both. You guys want to have a hard drive that you know is secure? Bitlocker is closed source. Apple's encryption is as well. If you use encryption on Windows or OSX than either system can see the password or encryption keys. Linux can keep your data actually safe. You should know by now that everything you type, even not even searched, into Google gets collected. Chrome is a potential botnet. Since the code is closed source or hidden we cannot see what it is doing. This really is a big deal. If SHTF you better be using Linux. You better have practiced it by now. Don't tell me you tried Ubuntu once on a dual boot and then couldn't figure out how to play games and that was that. I know I'm preaching and possibly coming off condescending but this is really important. The more people using Linux the better. You can trust the software.

Linux or properly called GNU/Linux is free. There are many different distributions that essentially come with preinstalled software. Some are hard to use but most are fairly easy. Free software is software that not only has no restrictive copyrights, but that also is open sourced. This means anyone can improve it, or inspect it. There is no way to hide backdoors or anything malicious. The Linux kernel itself is a fucking beast. Enjoy not having malware. Faster and easier to use. More intuitive. Free and 100% yours. Yes, some distributions come with codecs or flash players or other small proprietary closed source drivers. These are potentially bad, but you are one thousand times better off with a few of those than a full fledged Windows or OSX.

Any questions are welcome and I'll try to answer them as best I can. If you aren't sure you can use Linux you're wrong. If my gf can, I'm sure you can. Its not hard. Can be run off a USB even.

Submitted May 05, 2015 at 08:20PM by apatheory http://ift.tt/1FN3VWV conspiracy