I trusted my government to protect my info, and now I have LifeLock for life because of several breaches on their part. If data is stored, it is virtually certain some portion of it will get leaked.
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I would suggest, whatever you try, that you make sure to write down your windows key and then deauthorize your PC. That way, if it doesn't work out and you want/need to go back, you can reinstall windows and not deal with the unlicensed copy BS.
If System76 doesn't get some movement on Cosmic soon I'm going to have to jump ship to KDE. This shit looks awesome.
Didn't we learn our lesson 24 years ago with Y2K!?
EDIT: To be clear, I was being facetious. I remember my parents and father freaking out about this when I was in middle school. I would have thought we got this taken care of permanently already
Already on Pop_OS ;)
I have windows dual booted for a couple things I can't live or do school without and don't have viable options for Linux
Same if you click any of the ChatGPT copilot shit baked into the start menu.
Plus they are working on COSMIC which looks SAF. That's honestly the only thing that has kept me from distro hopping.
Food for thought: you should start getting familiar with Linux, either with Virtualbox/VMware, or dual booting right now. When the time comes and Win10 reaches EOL, you know you will find reasons to just go with the flow and stay with Microsoft.
As for what flavor? There are a few that come to mind as "windowy": Zorin, Mint, and the anything that uses KDE Plasma. Personally, I prefer Pop!_OS because I use MacOS as well and prefer that feel to windows a bit more, and System76 has done a fantastic job of making a polished product.
That's what I did, anyway. The mental load of still having windows to fall back on if I couldn't do something helped make the anxiety lighter and also helped me be motivated to try new things out. I couldn't imagine having to learn something with a gun to my head!
As long as the ability to manually turn off secureboot and remove the OS isn't locked behind a subscription...
Every time I see this story I laugh. Thanks for posting it.
If you want to do away with any protection you have with opting in to a security measure, like typing in a password, why don't you just reinstall and not select the encryption option?
Not requiring a password, or automatically entering a password to decrypt the filesystem, is essentially the same as not having encryption.
Decide which you want: Security or convenience. You cannot have both.