>>14252
I got down into berry deep ends of tech paranoia at some point, gentoo operated by keyboard only, the only internet connection out is throught tor, I think i wasted more than 100 hours on tech paranoia but after i got over the severe paranoia i continued to use linux but in a normal way.
I currently use windows for work because corporate and linux for personal use. At first win11 looked soo slick with all those animations then they tasked me with installing licensed software on colleagues machines, then i saw that modern Win 11 had eberrything and more that made me soo paranoid years ago, seperation of user and actions is shrimply impossible.
For most software, the biggest time is spent on making the license restrictive, pdf editer with kernel access, text processer that requires me to spend 30 minutes on the phone with a computer iterating 50 numbers one by one to some robot to prove that i am a human, adding a terminal number for each user in some old out of place looking menu soo the user licensed management software finally runs.
The worst part of it all is that no matter how much i try, how much i read the fineprint in all installer wizards, i miss some additional software installs that autostarts itself (i can't believe mcAfee still exists!) which slow down the clients computer and after 3-4 years of operation it is too virus infested to operate normally. Even my own windows machine, w