It’s not just protecting your data. You can inspect the source code. It’s open source after all. People can fork it or create new distributions. There are tons of distributions available for Linux. Like a distribution is combination of software, so linux is officially only the kernel. But the operating system ‘Linux’ is much more. Like tools and commands. And user interfaces.
Try to search for terms like: Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint. And so much more. You will see screenshot on the internet how those distributions are looking. And you can customize everything.
And all the software is also free. Free in terms of money and free in terms like freedom of creating a copy inspect the code, change the code etc. See also gnu philosophy : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
It’s not “protecting your data” in a literal sense, it just doesn’t collect and share it. Your data isn’t specially protected in Linux, it’s just that Windows and MacOS do collect data from your PC and sent it to their owners. So it’s only better for your data protection, because it doesn’t actively share your data.
That’s another thing, with Windows or MacOS installed on your PC, you do not own your operating system, you just bought a license to use it. But you DO OWN the Linux on your PC, it’s yours and you are legally allowed to do with it as you please. And thus, the only master that it serves are you. Not the corporations trying to exploit you for profit.
Ah so it protects your data?
It’s not just protecting your data. You can inspect the source code. It’s open source after all. People can fork it or create new distributions. There are tons of distributions available for Linux. Like a distribution is combination of software, so linux is officially only the kernel. But the operating system ‘Linux’ is much more. Like tools and commands. And user interfaces.
Try to search for terms like: Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint. And so much more. You will see screenshot on the internet how those distributions are looking. And you can customize everything.
And all the software is also free. Free in terms of money and free in terms like freedom of creating a copy inspect the code, change the code etc. See also gnu philosophy : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
It’s not “protecting your data” in a literal sense, it just doesn’t collect and share it. Your data isn’t specially protected in Linux, it’s just that Windows and MacOS do collect data from your PC and sent it to their owners. So it’s only better for your data protection, because it doesn’t actively share your data.
That’s another thing, with Windows or MacOS installed on your PC, you do not own your operating system, you just bought a license to use it. But you DO OWN the Linux on your PC, it’s yours and you are legally allowed to do with it as you please. And thus, the only master that it serves are you. Not the corporations trying to exploit you for profit.
Ahhhhh thanks for explaining