In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely.

This is where I stopped reading. “Educated guess”, my ass. Let’s call it what it actually is: wild speculation. ZDnet lets just anyone write articles, I guess.

This already exists, sort of. It’s called Trinity Desktop. However, it’s a fork of an older version of KDE, specifically 3.5.

I did say Xthings is the second laziest name I ever heard.

Xthings is the second laziest, most unimaginitive name for a company I have ever heard.

Well, Salix is based on Slackware, so yes, kinda!

Oh my god, I never made that connection. Thank you.

Archive.org mirror, courtesy of reddit user misternogetjoke: https://archive.org/details/insidececot

Are desktop shortcuts still a no-no with this distro?

Ugh, so tired of this old argument. Nothing to hide doesn’t mean everything to show. There, now let’s get on with our lives.

The new CEO’s overarching goal is to turn Mozilla into the “world’s most trusted software company,” citing public dissatisfaction with today’s privacy practices and the tech industry’s growing appetite for all kinds of data.

What the fuck does this man think the industry is feeding the data to?

And here I was, thinking this was a well thought out article with actual, legitimate reasons why someone wouldn’t want to use Linux. Instead, it’s this smug, autofellating, condescending bullshit. Roland Taylor has some issues.

Telegram talks a pretty big privacy game, but consider that the feature that actually enables end-to-end encryption, called “Secret Chats” in the app, is OFF by default. Couple that with everything else said in this thread and you start to see a picture forming. And it’s not pretty.

Fair warning: even if you disable telemetry on Windows, it has a tendency and history of re-enabling itself after a major update. You shouldn’t expect it to be a one-and-done deal.

Forget it. Privacy-wise, Android is a sinking ship, they can do whatever. I’m out.

The real question should be: Why is it called side-loading on phones? Because whether phone owners use the App Store/Google Play or a third party store, all they’re doing is installing something. Which, to answer your question, is what you do on PCs. The term “side-loading” is probably something some nutsack in marketing thought up.