Re:Pop_OS 21.04
by teekert on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:03AM
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You mean for devs to support Linux? That is indeed an issue of some concern, because most Linux users would prefer native Linux games. But, if you mean "bother installing Linux", then get ready for the whole privacy and control discussion :)
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OS/2 proved what happens when that route is followed.
As for privacy and control discussion, when most GNU/Linux users happen to mostly consume Electron and Web Apps, install applications via curl | sudo sh, there is hardly anything to discuss, other than cargo cult of a false sense of privacy and control.
Still it's a pretty different baseline from Windows where you get ads in the start menu and a lot of telemetry is send home by default.
A matter that depends on the distribution on the Linux side, and which Windows version on the other.
There are many supported and distinct Linux distributions, not so for Windows versions. I wouldn't want to run Windows 2000 in 2021 because it's the last one without telemetry.
Indeed, distrowatch is full of them, one user distributions that hardly anyone heard of.
Pity that all that security goes away the second an Electron app or Chrome is made use of.
Which is different to Windows because...?
You're making silly arguments based on your own strawmen.
Even the LTSC version is not safe enough.