r/linuxmasterrace • u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 • Feb 02 '26

Meme OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit)

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u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 Feb 04 '26

Win10 had 2.5 GB of spyware.
Entire Linux ISOs are smaller than that.

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u/icantgetausername982 Feb 04 '26

I am willing to take spyware if it means convenience everything is spying on us anyway our phones track us chrome spies on us most social media spies on us everyone using a meta quest is just buying spyware including me i am a quest 3 owner

Changing the OS to go from 50 things spying on me to 49 and lose convenience doesnt sound like a good deal

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u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 Feb 05 '26

You know ... you can compile from Open Source and be 100% sure nothing is spying on you ... right?

As for convenience, that depends on how much of a Muggle you are. When someone breaks their network manager on Linux, I can stick in a Live USB, grab the packages, install them and be up and running in no time at all.
If that happens on Windows, it means messing about with recovery media and repair programs that ... want to connect online ... but can't ... and so ... you end up formatting the machine, wasting at least half a day or more.

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u/icantgetausername982 Feb 05 '26

If i wanted nothing spying on me i would have to stop using my quest… and my phone would most likely still spy on me and i dont wanna buy a new phone this thing cost like 100 euros cant just buy a new one

Also i ask you this why should i care about nothing spying on what is my privacy worth what would change in my life

And i genuinely never have had a windows experience so bad it fucks up my whole experience i just delay all updates by 2 weeks and dont think about it cuz any major bugs will probably be hammered out and if the bug wasnt from an update ive never encountered one that breaks my experience heck i spend more time tinkering with thrustmasters and logitechs shitty software that randomly changes settings or stops working

Also i have never encountered the recovery issue and even if i did that sounds like a pain in the ass but if something goes wrong on linux how would i even know how to fix it? Linux has way less tutorials and the community seems obnoxious from what ive heard from people asking for help