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  "path": "/t/concerned-about-privacy-with-hardware-and-other-beginner-uncertainties/37191#post_3",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-16T20:30:29.000Z",
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  "textContent": "333:\n\n> If I change to a new (non-Windows) OS, like Linux, will I be able to do pretty much everything I would have been able to on Windows? I think apple is more secure, but I can’t do gaming in the same way there.\n\nIs there anything besides games you need to do in particular? The fact is that you _can’t_ do every thing in Linux you can in Windows, nor can you do everything in Windows that you can do in Linux.\n\nSteamOS has mainstreamed Linux for games, but the games are still made for Windows (generally) and run in a compatibility layer. I’d try dual booting Fedora Secureblue, Fedora Silverblue, or Ubuntu and seeing if you can handle the level of game support. Some people choose to have a separate device for games so that their important stuff isn’t sharing the same OS. For general web browsing, writing documents, etc, Linux is fine, but so would Android be mostly.\n\nI would keep the laptop personally. I wouldn’t think they could collect info about you from Linux or during boot since they’d need a program with internet access. Even Apple only collects telemetry you when you connect to the internet after boot or in recovery mode, though when you’re offline MacOS stockpiles telemetry to send later.",
  "title": "Concerned about privacy with hardware and other beginner uncertainties."
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