I had enough of big US tech and their actions, so created this guide to make switching as easy as possible
I had enough of big US tech and their actions, so created this guide to make switching as easy as possible
I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.
I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.
Details:
- Site - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
- Code - https://codeberg.org/purchase-with-purpose/pwp-website
- Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose
Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!
I have very little experience with the other sections, but I have some comments on the operating system secrion.
I would highly recommend staying away from Ubuntu, they are making quite a few questionable decisions when it comes to developing the Linux ecosystem which do not lend well to their continued openness and favorability.
I also couldn't help but notice that all the distros that are represented are Debian based, I would probably throw in fedora Linux for begginer friendly and bazzite for the gaming crowd although I do believe a decent amount of the maintainers are american. I also found it interesting that there was no section for moderately technical people, in which case the arch distros should be included, ie endeavoros and cachy os.
Thanks! I was least confident about the OS section and will definitely rework it. I'll post some ideas on https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose when I've done an update to that section. Will definitely take the above into account.
I would second the bazzite OS over pop. I have used both (and still do) but bazzite is much more stable an imaged based system. I have had multiple updates go wrong in the past with popos over the last 5 years. Pop is also not recieving the attention it used to because the system76 team is focused on making a new desktop environment (DE) for PopOS (which is awesome but) that is taking some time and considerable resources away from the OS. Even when the new DE does get merged into to the OS I would imagine it would still have some issues to iron out. Where bazite is good now and its about as uncomplicated as it gets with linux. I would even go as far as saying I have more success running games under bazzite than PopOS in its current state.