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>Well, the biggest advantages of Linux are that the OS vendor is not itself malicious (in particular, does not collect telemetry, push advertisements or attempt to restrict your use of the system like Microsoft and Apple do)

Except they do: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubuntu-pro-terminal-ad

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...

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That's seriously ridiculous. "Ubuntu let users know about automatic updates in the terminal".

It's incomparable to what MSFT does.

Let them know about automatic updates? So you didn’t read either link.

One was advertising Amazon, the other was advertising their paid support service. NEITHER was telling users about automatic updates.

Yes, a tiny, inobtrusive "hey, we offer paid support/automatic updates" after doing a terminal update.

That is easily solved by using Debian instead of Ubuntu.

So then what you meant to say was that _some_ Linux distros are not malicious.

The distributions maybe, but the producers of the Linux kernel are not.

I doubt the kernel maintainers of Windows or MacOS are involved in the advertisements inserted into the GUI of either OS.

The vast, overwhelming majority of them, yes.

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