I have come to the conclusion that commercial operating system vendors can no longer be trusted.
They are destroying computing autonomy of users by tying online accounts into their products. They include built in search tools that leak information to the vendor and, in some cases, "trusted" third parties. And they try to steer users to their own cloud solutions, which store user data unencrypted.
Apple, Google, and Microsoft all do this. Even Canonical has. But worse to me are those who make weak excuses for all of it; saying that people can use settings to turn it off, even though they know damn well that everyday users will stick to the defaults.
Personally, I am disgusted with the entire situation.
Fortunately, there are still operating systems [1] that respect your freedom - both free as in Free Software, and as in freedom to choose the stack, packages and software you want.
They are destroying computing autonomy of users by tying online accounts into their products. They include built in search tools that leak information to the vendor and, in some cases, "trusted" third parties. And they try to steer users to their own cloud solutions, which store user data unencrypted.
Apple, Google, and Microsoft all do this. Even Canonical has. But worse to me are those who make weak excuses for all of it; saying that people can use settings to turn it off, even though they know damn well that everyday users will stick to the defaults.
Personally, I am disgusted with the entire situation.