🇪🇸ES/🇺🇸EN. Trying to improve my English using Lemmy. I love tech and 2D animation.
There are some jobs that need a PC just for basic tasks like sending and receiving messages and emails. Of course they could use a phone for this, but computers have bigger screens. They only need access to the Internet, a frendly GUI, and permissions controls. The way things are going, even big companies will switch to Linux when Windows 10 support finally ends.
I used their AI for months, until I read a comparison between multiple AIs and I found out it gave bad results. I thought all of them were very stubborn giving the same wrong answer all the time, but ChatGPT changed my mind. Now I can’t even imagine such ineffective tool having access to sensitive information like emails.
Windows 7 users are switching to forks that still support the OS, like r3dfox, Pale Moon, Mypal, and Supermium. Home users stuck with 7 and 8 probably won’t upgrade or try Linux, they didn’t even update to 10 for some reason (and it was free!) .
Did you try OnlyOffice? I heard it has good compatibility with Microsoft Office’s files, it’s available on almost every OS, and looks easy to use. However, I’m not sure if you can create very complex documents like with Office.
I think it all depends on your PC usage and if you have money to pay for an AV.
I learned all of this using Windows, and you can adapt it to any OS. All of my recommendations are meant exclusively for security, keep in mind that some of them are not the best for privacy.
But the only way to get full and annoying real time protection with all the typical antivirus tools on Linux, is paying an AV subscription. Most AV suites for Linux are developed for servers, I’m not sure if an active plan for home users exists. Just remember, it all depends on your PC usage.
The most annoying bloatware I found on a laptop is HP Analytics. Its only purpose is to get data from you and sell it. It works in the background and you only notice it because the laptop is slow for unknown reasons. To “delete it”, you must disable its service. If you want, you can change its folders permissions so you can delete them as admin. But it will install itself again in a few weeks and you will have to remove it once more, unless you never update Windows and drivers. HP Analytics works like a malware, but antivirus won’t detect it. And you can find this on every HP modern laptop, so it’s very common.
I’m glad nobody is mentioning WhatsApp as an alternative. They released usernames a few months ago, all messages are end-to-end encrypted, will add voice and video calls to WhatsApp Web, many people and companies have an account there already… It would be an easy migration, but awful for privacy. Thankfully, the most similar suggestions I found were Telegram and Signal.
Roblox is asking for the same thing to use chat in-game, but they split people in age groups (9-12, 18-20…), and you can only talk to players in your age group.
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Now Discord users are furious and canceling Nitro. I wonder where they will go if the update gets released.
Now Discord users are furious and canceling Nitro. I wonder where they will go if the update gets released.
It’s like Opera VPN: they change your location and call it a VPN, but it works like a proxy in their browser. In this case, it’s powered by Cloudflare and works like a limited proxy version of WARP, connecting to the nearest server available instead of changing your country. I think a built-in VPN for the OS with an option to disable it in certain apps would be better.