Which one? An essentially unsupported Linux distribution? Canonical does telemetry as well. Apple has been doing this for years an yet we still don't sweat wrathful spate of headlines over it.
Oh and by the way, the logfiles from most package servers provide an accurate description of what you're doing with your machine and a weak concept of identity. So you'll need to avoid those.
Browsers keep updating and the vast majority of websites collect telemetry as well. So no more internet.
But yeah, the OS app level telemetry seems like a pretty big deal and we should stress out about it.
Bullshit. I've had a better experience with Ubuntu than with Windows 10. And since Ubuntu 16.04 the telementary thing you were talking about is desabled by default. Or you could use other Ubuntu derivate, like Xubuntu.
Oh and by the way, the logfiles from most package servers provide an accurate description of what you're doing with your machine and a weak concept of identity.
Those "package servers" are distributed mirror networks with no central entity being able to read all the logs.
Yeah, that's what I don't get about posts like this. You can either be indifferent with (legal) telemetry collection in which case you don't need posts like this or you are not comfortable with the idea in which case you shouldn't be using windows to begin with.
You can go through all the hops, run every script out there and Microsoft can push a new update tomorrow that will put you back on square one. So why even bother when you can't ever be really sure you achieved what you wanted and for how long.
Ubuntu is not the only Linux distribution. Slackware is great if you want an OS that literally only does what you tell it to. Ditto OpenBSD if you're even more paranoid about telemetry.
Granted, they aren't for beginners, but that's the sliding scale in action.
