Bill Gates ‘Digital IDS’ Will Be Mandatory To Participate in Society
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Explain your question more - I don't know what you mean about tracking. If you are talking about things like spyware or cookies then understand that it uses the same browsers as everything else. You can use Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Oscar, Edge - and a ton more. The big difference is you should be running those programs as your own user-id and not root (like Administrator in Windows) so any damage you could get should stop with your files and not effect the system files.
Linux is great on PCs, but if you want to play a ton of games it probably isn't going to work for you. I've used it since 1992 for both work and home, and both of my girls were raised on it before they went to school and were forced into Windows. It is stable, more secure than Windows can ever be, has versions of most software you need from windows (like OpenOffice instead of Office), and can be used on older computers with low memory and old CPUs. Most of the programs are free, but there are some things like Photoshop that Linux doesn't do as well - they have GIMP but it is not as good.
It used to be much harder to run when you had to compile everything from the kernel to the windowing system. Now it is nearly idiot-proof with Ubuntu, yet still very powerful. In fact the only windows system I have anymore is a virtual image I have upgraded since Windows 7 (now running Win11). I run it inside of VmWare in Linux if I need it for something like TurboTax. Linux is probably running on several things you own or use daily and you don't even realize it.
For example, if you use Windows, which I purchased a laptop last year running windows 8, Microsoft (Gates of hell) need you to supply an email before you can reach your desktop so they can track who you are. I don't like that.
Just like credit card, they know who is paying for what. I use crypto and when i decided to support an organization, I just use crypto and they don't know who I am, and I do not need to give them an email, an address and no bank needs to know that I am supporting a company or an organization.
Gates want to know everything you do.
Ok - the Microsoft ID. They make it look like you have to use one just to login to your PC. You do not. I didn't use a Microsoft ID until recently, and only because I got Office365 for the family. It comes with 1TB of OneDrive for 5 people, so I encrypt some backup stuff and keep it there. You can skip the Microsoft ID stuff when setting the PC up, and just create your own local account (unless you are using something that requires it like Office). You can also go in now and add another user as a local user, and even give it administrator access. You can also find out online how to disable a lot of the Windows telemetry and spyware from Microsoft. It got a little harder with 10 and 11 but there are good guides online.
By the way - you should be able to upgrade the Windows 8 to 10 or 11 (if the PC us able to run it) for free. Windows 8 was awful. I have upgraded from 7 to 11 several times before. At a prior job we had hundreds of PCs with the windows 7 license stickers but IT registered them with a volume license key - so they never used the stickers. They let me use as many as I wanted for labs I created since they already paid for them but would never use them. They used Enterprise, and the stickers were for Windows 7 pro.
https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/how-to-setup-windows-10-without-a-microsoft-account/
Ok. I'm going to use Linux next so I don't have to deal with Microsoft. You mentioned Ubuntu. I will look into that.
Good choice. I use https://ubuntu-mate.org/about/ but you might prefer regular Ubuntu if you like the interface in Windows 8. I prefer Mate because it doesn't remind me of Windows - ymmv. https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop . There will be more tutorials for regular Ubuntu than for Ubuntu-Mate so I would try regular Ubuntu first. There are a ton of guides online - just search for how to install ubuntu.
Couple things - Ubuntu releases development versions every 6 months in April and October, but the 6 month releases will need upgrades more often than what they call the LTS releases - Long Term Support. LTS releases come out every 2 years, and core packages are supported for 5 years while non-core are generally supported for 3 years. The current LTS is 22.04 (2022 April) so in April of 2024 a new LTS release will be available. I suggest you stick to the LTS releases.
You can always play with it for a bit on a live cd also. Just download the CD or burn the ISO file to a USB key and you can boot into live mode. It is much slower than actually installing it but it is a good test, and the cd/USB can be used as a rescue CD if you ever need one - or it can be used to access your windows stuff if you didn't encrypt your hard drive.
Feel free to reach out if you get stuck. I'll help when I can.