If Linux was the easy solution like you've suggested, more people would use it.
If I installed Linux today, about 75% of the software I need to run would not operate.
Your statement is, thereby, false for me - and I imagine many others.
I'm just lazy to you, I guess.
Similar problem.
Although with the privacy concerns of Win 11 I think I'm going to move to a dual boot system. Still running Win 10 ATM, but eventually I'm sure I'll be forced to upgrade.
True; but there are usually alternatives to the software you use.
75% of the software I run has no alternatives - period. I would need to run a Windows VM inside the Linux boot, defeating the purpose entirely of using Linux in the first place.
Same. Unfortunately 99% of what I do for work is strictly windows only if it is not browser based.
I used to have a Linux machine but it's a lot of hassle for what? The reality is privacy is completely dead and it wasn't Windows 10/11 that killed it. If I ever have or do anything that I need to be sure is secure it simply will be analog or in person.
I just think it's funny how in my experience it's consistently that the people who are worried about or talk about Windows 10/11 tracking will never give up their smart phones and indiscriminate app use. Even when you tell them that smartphones are 1000x worse than a computer ever could be they just simply shrug it off with "I have nothing to hide" or "It's not that big of a deal."
I don't like what we've created but people like me have been bringing it up for decades and every step of the way people don't care. My move now is to simply remind these people that this is what they wanted. That for the last 10-20 years they've been actively shutting down people who tried to stop this and have also directly asked for it because they knew they had nothing to hide.
This is true. Shills have an explicit agenda to scare people away from Linux. They've been steady at it since early Voat days.
As most people use office and a web browser, Linux can easily replace the typical user's desktop.
I hope people read the thread and figure out for themselves who has an agenda here and how much telemetry is lost if enough people switch. Notice the comments pretending equivalents don't exist for the majority of people even if they, as an individual, might be an exception. Which, of course, seems to trigger hard shilling.
I've met very few people who "need" proprietary software. This is normally code-speak for lazy and don't want to learn new things or alter a workflow in any way.
Would you care to elaborate on what you "need" that you "can't" do on Linux? There are many good alternatives to proprietary software and much of where there isn't the native software will run on wine anyway.
White label, independently created and run security software that does not have Linux packages.
The Linux "alternatives" are (usually) open source and do not have adequate levels of functionality.
Anything from methods of encryption to stenography libraries.
I have yet to find alternatives in the Linux world that are adequate.
This is one example, I have 20 others.
You do know that the software you cited literally lists linux packages as a feature right? Open VPN, etc.... It also claims to work with all customer OS.
https://oem.avira.com/en/solutions/white-label
You're other claims are kind of generic and I don't believe them to be true but couldn't really debate without specifics. Also not really interested as I'm not trying to change your opinion and you're welcome to not learn new things just because you don't want to but making false claims is nigger tier.
Final point in all things networking and info sec Linux is the undisputed king. Fill stop. {wireshark, openvas, every command line networking tool known to man, metasploit, SET, etc...}
Afterthought edit.... : I'm willing to concede on the enterprise stuff as the requirements there come from others. For personal use no one needs windows.
Games?
No. Tools. Computers are tools.
If that's the case, by far, you are the exception. Aside from games (that is now closing too), most people can very easily replace their windows install with Linux. The vast majority in fact.
More software (in last decade) does work now in linux but do understand your point. Have to run a win boot for work and sucks.
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