Putting together a practical guide to online privacy

what would you recommend us to use for linux?
Mint or Debian if you need it incredibly easy, Arch if you don't mind putting in a bit of effort for significantly more control, and Gentoo or Linux From Scratch if you want complete control and don't mind waiting forever for things to compile (be prepared for either really long compile times or the need for an extremely powerful gayming PC though).
i mostly just play obscure old shit and a few source games, outside of that i really don't do much outside of using this site and listening to music
also im curious what is the difference between ordinary windows and windows iot enterprise
Linux should be able to do that perfectly or mostly fine at the bare minimum, especially if you're gud with tech or able to get gud easily. About the only things ik well can't work on Linux are games with """anti-cheat""" (legalized rootkits).

Ordinary Windows is just, of course, regular windows, whereas Windows IoT Enterprise LTSC gets updates for a significantly longer amount of time. I also suspect it is slightly less bloated than regular Windows, since it's meant for proper Enterprise setups, and that might actually make it look more legitimate even if you pirate the OS, so it may be easier to create burner accounts (from there: just set your age to 13-15~ on any service, and if necessary use a unique IP address, and you've now avoided phone numbers for burners as well, but Debian is probably fine too for this so it's probably not worth using Windows for this specific purpose).
 
Mint or Debian if you need it incredibly easy, Arch if you don't mind putting in a bit of effort for significantly more control, and Gentoo or Linux From Scratch if you want complete control and don't mind waiting forever for things to compile (be prepared for either really long compile times or the need for an extremely powerful gayming PC though).

Linux should be able to do that perfectly or mostly fine at the bare minimum, especially if you're gud with tech or able to get gud easily. About the only things ik well can't work on Linux are games with """anti-cheat""" (legalized rootkits).

Ordinary Windows is just, of course, regular windows, whereas Windows IoT Enterprise LTSC gets updates for a significantly longer amount of time. I also suspect it is slightly less bloated than regular Windows, since it's meant for proper Enterprise setups, and that might actually make it look more legitimate even if you pirate the OS, so it may be easier to create burner accounts (from there: just set your age to 13-15~ on any service, and if necessary use a unique IP address, and you've now avoided phone numbers for burners as well, but Debian is probably fine too for this so it's probably not worth using Windows for this specific purpose).
So Linux is completely private, right? There’s no way anyone can plant a backdoor when I install it?
 
So Linux is completely private, right? There’s no way anyone can plant a backdoor when I install it?
Pretty much. All the code is available for you to read, compile, and distribute freely. This means that even *if* it were backdoored, you could just remove the backdoors without having to jump through any hoops. And much of the best software is also in the same situation, so no way to backdoor those either. Also, if you put some effort in, you can install the entire OS offline rather than relying on servers, at least after you get the essentials for whatever distro you go with.
 
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