Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? [LWN.net]

Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Posted Dec 8, 2012 1:42 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by wagerrard
Parent article: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

But in this case users aren't aware it's the internet. They think they are doing a local filesystem search.

True, the first time they see an Amazon result they may do a wtf, learn about this misfeature, and perhaps turn it off.

OT - I just stripped off all the bloat from my two ubuntu computers - gnome, unity, kde, xfce. Only gtk and some very basic gnome libraries remain, with software like libreoffice, evince, inkscape, gimp, and of course latex/emacs/compilers etc remain. I'm using the i3 window manager. It feels so much faster and I'm so much happier.

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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Posted Dec 10, 2012 15:00 UTC (Mon) by KSteffensen (subscriber, #68295) [Link]

>OT - I just stripped off all the bloat from my two ubuntu computers - gnome, unity, kde, xfce. Only gtk and some very basic gnome libraries remain, with software like libreoffice, evince, inkscape, gimp, and of course latex/emacs/compilers etc remain. I'm using the i3 window manager. It feels so much faster and I'm so much happier.

Why install Ubuntu in the first place? Allow me to recommend Debian and Gentoo.

Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Posted Dec 10, 2012 15:29 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Because I don't see the need to wipe and reinstall? I already use gentoo on another computer. Perhaps it wasn't obvious from what I wrote, but I'm not totally ignorant of the various flavours of linux.