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More importantly, run an operating system you can trust.
I have Linux Mint installed on my laptop, I just don't trust M$ Windows with their AI crap.
another cultist
No operating system is trustable unless you coded it entirely yourself on an air gapped machine with your own hand crafted compiler, and even then you are still exposed to hardware backdoors
You're confusing "trust" with "can guarantee to beyond a shred of a doubt that the system is not compromised in any way".
that's prettt much impossible without going to insane lengths
linux is literally right there and it works for 90% of use cases.
lineageos can get annoying, yes, but thats mostly on the manufacturers.
For some, particularly businesses reliant on software that can't perform on anything but Windows (and occasionally MacOS), sure. For individuals it is much easier. Installed Linux Mint a few months ago and I set up a VM for the stuff I truly needed some form of Windows for (tried dual booting for a bit but found that inconvenient). None of these are insane lengths, unless the cutoff for that is, "anything above minimal effort."
Even more importantly, software can be exploited.
And know how to discern obfuscated code
In the past, I had dual booted windows and linux (Ubuntu, I believe), and eventually, windows managed to screw with the bootloader and brick the install. Never tried dual booting again. Windows VM on Linux is a much better solution.
Every single time I boot up my windows install it screws up the boot order and I have to go into UEFI and force it to load GRUB on startup again. Fucking malware.
There's a reason that my windows install and my linux install are always on separate disks. Can't fuck up my bootloader if you don't know it exists.
and what access controls does limux provide forcamera access? because I haven't seen any such fearure yet. I'm all for linux but it does not help with webcam issues.
to solve this issue you do need to go insane lengths. like apparmor/selinux or whatnot.
Is it really insane though?
Even a decade ago, it took longer to download a Linux distro than it did to make a bootable disc, boot to it, and install.
Seriously, the very first time I installed Linux on anything was maybe twenty minutes of actual effort total, with the rest being waiting for things to download or process during install. I can't call that crazy lengths. Not everyone is as confident in following instructions and willing to take a risk, but it isn't some kind of hyper specialized skill, and the very fact of a bootable storage means you can verify a given install would work on your hardware.
Now, changing roms on android? I would agree that doing so is absurdly more difficult than it should be, and there's more pitfalls that can screw things up. But I didn't get the impression you meant that.
linux is not secure
Linux?