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In a world where computing environments are milked to monetize, spy, and control their users, we need to turn to alternative choices in operating systems. Although major computer manufacturers would never include these platforms pre-installed on their machines, you as the user are only one install away from enjoying these open, free, reliable, and robust operating systems yourself...
At first glance, an operating system such as Linux may seem very complex and difficult to learn. The number of simultaneously operating and communicating elements is staggering. Additionally, when we take into account the dizzying number of seemingly different distributions, we may get a headache and the question “why are there so many”? Being a user of a commercial product from the Redmond giant, you can come to the conclusion that every distribution is different, like every version of Windows … but is it really so? In this article, I will introduce you, to the world of Linux...
Linux is not a secure operating system. However, there are steps you can take to improve it. This guide aims to explain how to harden Linux as much as possible for security and privacy. This guide attempts to be distribution-agnostic and is not tied to any specific one...
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New users to Linux may be concerned with how well their laptops and desktops are supported - or they may not have an old PC laying around. For these users we recommend looking at machines that are renowned for running well with Linux, or are even designed for it. In this article we'll share the models of machines that run Linux well, these machines have all been Ubuntu certified, and since the OS' we recommend are all based off of Ubuntu, everything should run out of the box...