Microsoft’s launch of new spyware in Windows is a good reminder that Big Tech intends to exploit you via its computers and surveillance phones. A good non-corporate alternative is Linux, a free and open-source operating system.
Today we speak with “Peter Fung” (not his real name), a security expert living in Switzerland, about why, and how, we should all switch to Linux.
Below, sites mentioned in the interview:
• DistroWatch.com: comprehensive listing of Linux distributions
• Ubuntu for desktops: Linux distro OK for recent-model computers
• elementary OS: recommended Linux distro
• Zorin OS: recommended Linux distro
• Pop!_OS: recommended Linux distro
• LibreOffice: recommended alternative to Microsoft Office
• ONLYOFFICE: recommended alternative to Microsoft Office
• Apache OpenOffice: another alternative to Microsoft Office
• NextCloud: recommended alternative to Google Drive
• Element: secure communications platform (don’t use WhatsApp!)
• Session: secure messaging (seriously, don’t use WhatsApp!)
• Fairphone: “smartphones that benefit the planet”
• Murena: deGoogled smartphones
• Ubuntu Touch: Linux-based smartphone OS
• GrapheneOS: deGoogled Android OS
• LineageOS: deGoogled Android OS
• CalyxOS: deGoogled Android OS
• Greenweb Solutions: our guest’s company
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