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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age (www.scottrlarson.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by koavf@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] kolorafa@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

OneDrive even silently reinstalled itself and moved one customer’s data to the cloud, all without consent. One day their data was on the local drive and the next it became online-only files that had to be downloaded from Microsoft’s servers.

External party (microsoft) uploaded some unknown code to user PC (hidden in update) and that code uploaded and deted all that data.

That sounds like stealing + (almost) ransomware?

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Eh... The blog post left me hungry. He doesn't talk about his experience per se.