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veggie LinkGood article, and I appreciated the effort they put into making this as easy as possible, but there's no way in hell the average user is going to do any of these. I really hate the lengths that we...Good article, and I appreciated the effort they put into making this as easy as possible, but there's no way in hell the average user is going to do any of these. I really hate the lengths that we have to go to expect the same basic level of privacy everyone took for granted 10 years ago.
This has been my experience as well.
When my Windows 8 desktop started dying I really wanted to avoid 10 because of the advertising and privacy issues. Apple wasn't an option due to cost, so naturally I started to consider Linux. I spent a few weeks mentally preparing myself, as I was expecting to be tinkering with configurations and fixing things via command line.
I downloaded Mint, installed it, did updates, and well... It just worked. It's been six months now and all my computers(and the girlfriends laptop) are running Mint. I was actually slightly disappointed that it's been so trouble free as I was ready to get my hands dirty.
Unfortunately I think Linux still has this stigma attached to it, so it won't be 'the year of Linux' anytime soon.