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"You need to try Linux" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there's a good argument the author's concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.

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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

That's really not the case, there's no proprietary parts to inject this into, and pop is one of the most heavily watched distros for a reason.

The minimal things they add to their particular distro are essentially just theming, and it'd be really obvious if they injected something malicious into it.

It would also NOT be too late because they're a stable distro and have regular releases, it'd have to be a completely last minute unexpected change for that to be the case.