If you want to stop endless troubleshooting, switch to Linux.

A part of my brain always reads AI as Al (yes, those are two different letters). As in Albert.

So it’s generative Albert. And “Albert is increasingly using more power”.

The Galaxy S series and the Pixel devices cost about the same tbh

So? That’s not what the person you replied was even saying. You completely missed the point of their comment.

Three incoherent replies with jumbled run-on sentences.

the businesses with clean perfect sites tend to be the scams

Uhhh, no. Objectively no. A legit website is not going to have spelling mistakes and broken links. Looking professional and thorough is a direct lead to increased business. What you just said is completely false, and frankly idiotic.

Everything else you said (in all three replies) is just a jumbled mess of a brain dump that I’m not even going to try and address any of it.

No, I didn’t say this “isn’t a nice site”. I said it’s “suspicious as hell”.

Having a working site and a navigable “About Us” page isn’t “nice”. It’s the bare minimum I would expect of any legitimate nice or ugly site.

There’s just a lot on their site that reeks of sloppy scammers.

Its so cheap to just get a vps from a littlecreekhosting deal

This site seems suspicious as hell. Incredibly basic site, no info on where they’re located, and the “About Us” links aren’t even links. There’s no About Us page.

Kinda. Generally the user files (including custom installed applications) are on a rw partition. Whereas the system files (OS files, root folder, etc) are on a ro partition. When updates are applied to the core system they come as complete images. No compiling from source on the fly.

The advantages to this is that it should be near impossible to break your system. If you need to roll back to a previous version the system just/downloads/mounts the previous image. There is less flexibility in terms of changing system files. But the idea with immutable distros is that you shouldn’t be modifying system files anyways, and there are different ways to accomplish things.

A really good example is Android. Android (non-rooted) is kinda-sorta an immutable distro. Except it uses an A/B partition method, where the active system downloads and installs to the other partition, triggers a flag, then a reboot picks up the flag and boots from the newly installed partition. If anything goes wrong, another flag is triggered and it boots from the “good” partition.

It’s not quite the same, but at a high-level it kinda is.

Edit: article I found about it

https://linuxblog.io/immutable-linux-distros-are-they-right-for-you-take-the-test/

That’s entirely untrue.

That’s like saying Windows is meant for Visual Studio developers. You could use other IDEs but that’s not its strong point.

In a world where space is usually the cheapest and most available hardware on a PC

I read this in the movie trailer guy’s voice

I’d like to introduce you to BetaNews. The second one of the authors posts an article about anything Linux related, there’s this group that jumps straight to the comments about how much Linux sucks, it will never replace Windows, these Linux fanboys need to give it up already, etc. It’s so consistent that you could set your watch to what they say.

You think those script kiddies know Rust?

And yet Graphene will still probably need more private and secure

The purpose isn’t to keep them out of your devices. The purpose is to have none of your critical data on it when they inevitably search/copy the data.

A Chromebook is really easy to wipe/reset and switch between accounts. Plus they’re relatively cheap.

they do sell replacement parts for most parts.

If you can’t replace all of the parts with some other off the shelf part, regardless of quality, then you’re locked to a brand and are at their mercy.

What happens when they inevitably discontinue the A1M and no longer sell parts for it?

Yes, it’s a weird hill to die on. My statement is factually correct. Even if you try to harden your Windows installation with the amount of effort to payoff that’s equal to driving across the country to visit your next door neighbour, it’s a weird hill to die on.

there’s nothing Linux can offer me that Windows already doesn’t.

Well, if you really want to have that convo, I’m more than prepared for that. Aside from privacy, there’s the level of security and performance that Windows only dreams of. This isn’t an opinion, these are just facts at this point.

I do not care what you ‘think’ about it, I KNOW that.

I guess you’re the only person on the planet who does.

Why are you having an aneurism over this

Sounds like you’re the one getting worked up. I frankly don’t care what you think you know. I don’t use Windows for a whole truck load of reasons. If you want to spend hours on end modifying the OS and fighting with built-in defaults, and then convince yourself it’s secure. Then go right ahead, its no skin off my back.

But you’re definitely the one getting defensive over Windows.

Like I said, I stand by my statement. You absolutely cannot, unless you want to cut off your system from the internet or block Windows updates outright, you will be sending data to Microsoft.

This is such a weird hill for you to die on.

Please. You have no idea what my IT literacy is. The fact is that unless you install a non-standard edition of Windows, run one of the many questionable debloat scripts, make dozens upon dozens of edits to the registry, disable automatic updates, and block connections at the network/firewall level, then you will absolutely be sending boat loads of data to Microsoft.

And the second you do any updates you’ll have to make all the changes again, because Microsoft is notorious for reverting those changes.

And, after all that, you still cannot be completely sure that no data is sneaking its way back to Microsoft unless you diligently monitor all network traffic.

So I stand by my statement that the one thing Linux absolutely does, that Windows absolutely cannot, is protect your data from Microsoft.

No, you absolutely cannot, if you use Windows.

there’s nothing Windows can’t do for me that Linux can

Linux can keep your data away from Microsoft

But you can do nearly everything with the GUI in Linux for a while now. The level of stuff you would need to use the terminal for is the same level on Windows you would need the command-line for, or (SHUDDER) the registry.

In fact, I would argue that doing things in Linux via the GUI is easier than even on Windows. I’m speaking as a user of KDE Plasma. I personally dislike Gnome.