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Beware - Popular Linux distros (especially KDE) have built-in (((telemetry)))

submitted by LoliNeko to technology 3.6 yearsSep 25, 2021 02:18:33 ago (+8/-0)     (www.summertime.tech)

https://www.summertime.tech/dtw.EN.html



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[ - ] account deleted by user 4 points 3.6 yearsSep 25, 2021 08:17:27 ago (+4/-0)

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[ - ] boogeyman 3 points 3.6 yearsSep 25, 2021 05:16:17 ago (+3/-0)

KDE is not a distro though. The article says many distros have telemetry in their KDE flavor (=distro comes preinstalled with KDE desktop environment/packages), though some have disabled it by default.

There are other things to worry about too, such as
/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf
cat /path/to/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

[ - ] Spaceman84 2 points 3.6 yearsSep 25, 2021 12:39:49 ago (+2/-0)

TempleOS is the only non jew'd operating system

[ - ] iSmokeMemes 2 points 3.6 yearsSep 25, 2021 08:59:20 ago (+2/-0)

Shit, don't know how I hadn't heard about this. I have Mint with Cinnamon, XFCE, and KDE all installed.

I've been wanting to migrate to a non-systemd distribution anyway I guess.

[ - ] wolfe 2 points 3.6 yearsSep 25, 2021 12:14:35 ago (+2/-0)

I've been running Artix with OpenRC for a few months with no problems.
www.artixlinux.org

[ - ] LoliNeko [op] 1 point 3.6 yearsSep 26, 2021 04:57:13 ago (+1/-0)

Obarun personally gets my vote for its innovative yet simple s6 and 66 tools.

[ - ] iSmokeMemes 0 points 3.6 yearsSep 26, 2021 10:23:41 ago (+0/-0)

Any thoughts on how Obarun compares to Artix? Both use an Arch base and seem very similar.

[ - ] LoliNeko [op] 1 point 3.6 yearsSep 28, 2021 13:00:11 ago (+1/-0)

I've started with Artix first. My impressions were that the OS is pretty much Arch with just a different init. There is no effort to prevent systemd from creeping in eventually, and all of them were patched with elogind instead. I've run into trouble using the s6 version, but the Artix dudes were unable to solve it and gave up.

Obarun actively puts in effort to avoid systemd, and all its "user authentication service" bullshit. I did ran into trouble sometimes, but as long as you ask after putting in some effort to self-diagnose, and don't demand to be spoonfed copy-paste commands, they know their own distro inside out and can help you out. 66-tools is a huge boon to the s6 init, it simplified the learning curve and actually helped me learn a little more about how inits work.

This website, which I've linked to over here before, gives a good run-down with its various posts on different aspects: https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/

[ - ] iSmokeMemes 0 points 3.6 yearsSep 28, 2021 13:23:32 ago (+0/-0)

Thank you very much for the info. I think I may be reimaging my daily driver soon, will attempt Obarun.

[ - ] toobaditworks 1 point 3.6 yearsSep 25, 2021 04:34:51 ago (+1/-0)

I remember reading about this and Mint about 5 years ago? Not sure but I was surprised Linux distros would do such a thing. This got me looking into more secure distros.

Kali is listed way at the bottom in this article as not having this telemetry. I made a tutorial on how to run it in vmware if anyone is interested.

https://www.talk.lol/viewpost?postid=614cb8d122354

Also Whonix is a good Linux distro. I'm using it now and you can run it as a VMS also if you want to test it out. Better to run Whonix on two computers. One is your workstation and the other is the Gateway (which you launch first and connect to).

[ - ] mattsixteen24 0 points 3.6 yearsSep 25, 2021 11:38:54 ago (+0/-0)

I've never liked the KDE interface.