Switching a browser is a far more simple matter than completely switching an OS. Unfortunately stuck in that department.
I pick the fights I can actually fight.
I used to be on win. Downloaded a linux ISO. Took a USB, prepared it as a bootable USB, burned the iso on there, and simply rebooted the computer.
That gave me the livecd environment, without touching my initial setup, as it runs in RAM- memory. This way I could teach myself to tricks.
In your case, it may be beneficial to do the same and use Ubuntu (works for almost all computer straight of of the box) or Linux Mint or LMDE.
Later on I moved to MX-linux, which is more geared towards free-software in addition to opensource.
I later installed a linux distro together with virtualization software like virtualbox. Within virtualbox I installed windows. This way I could use by linux base system and run windows at the same time, switching back and forth, until such time I had this typical windows utility in command within linux.
Now I am totally free of windows/ MAC.
Many distro's work out of the box. (Ubuntu/ Mint)
it works out of the box,
it has VLC player for video, Rhythymbox for audio, SMplayer, Freeyoutube, Libre-office for all your doc-processing needs, documentviewer for PDF
Bluetooth -> connects perfectly to audiospeakers and headphones.
-it features timeshift, for snapshots and restorepoints
most used browsers: firefox, Brave, Gab, Chromium, Chrome, etc.
Thunderbird / Evolution for email/ RSS/ Agenda kind of things
OpenVPN for VPN needs,which is easy to setup.
Google earth can be swapped for Marble, though not as sophisticated, (yet)
And when it comes to playing windows games: Playonlinux, especially the steam implementation works great.
If you need real hardhitting applications:
think: OBS, Kdenlive, Aegisub
And if you have a business to run: think adempierre.
All it takes is some time to learn a few tricks and there is a ton of help out there. Any newbie question you could run into, has already been answered.
Why would you use a browser from a company that actively supports any of this? No thank you just on principle alone.
How about your OS? Are you just as principled?
if yes, what then are you using?
Switching a browser is a far more simple matter than completely switching an OS. Unfortunately stuck in that department. I pick the fights I can actually fight.
Why stuck? Still in Win or Mac?
I used to be on win. Downloaded a linux ISO. Took a USB, prepared it as a bootable USB, burned the iso on there, and simply rebooted the computer.
That gave me the livecd environment, without touching my initial setup, as it runs in RAM- memory. This way I could teach myself to tricks.
In your case, it may be beneficial to do the same and use Ubuntu (works for almost all computer straight of of the box) or Linux Mint or LMDE.
Later on I moved to MX-linux, which is more geared towards free-software in addition to opensource.
I later installed a linux distro together with virtualization software like virtualbox. Within virtualbox I installed windows. This way I could use by linux base system and run windows at the same time, switching back and forth, until such time I had this typical windows utility in command within linux.
Now I am totally free of windows/ MAC.
Many distro's work out of the box. (Ubuntu/ Mint)
-it features timeshift, for snapshots and restorepoints
Google earth can be swapped for Marble, though not as sophisticated, (yet)
And when it comes to playing windows games: Playonlinux, especially the steam implementation works great.
If you need real hardhitting applications:
think: OBS, Kdenlive, Aegisub
And if you have a business to run: think adempierre.
All it takes is some time to learn a few tricks and there is a ton of help out there. Any newbie question you could run into, has already been answered.