Untrue! Let me give you some examples of things that are both ambient and pervasive!

Slime Molds!
Entropy!
Capitalist violence by the hoarding of wealth and refusal to engage with other humans with empathy!
Your Mom!

As someone who recently made the switch, DM me if there’s anything I can help with. A lot of the Linux Bros on here will be completely unhelpful out of smug superiority. Also, if you have an HP, you will almost certainly have to do a LOT more work (I had to learn to edit GRUB config files pre-startup). It will be much easier if you don’t have an HP. Anyway, open offer. Also, do Linux Mint.

As someone who recently made the switch, DM me if there’s anything I can help with. A lot of the Linux Bros on here will be completely unhelpful out of smug superiority. Also, if you have an HP, you will almost certainly have to do a LOT more work (I had to learn to edit GRUB config files pre-startup). It will be much easier if you don’t have an HP. Anyway, open offer. Also, do Linux Mint.

It is. Except that the law doesn’t protect people. People protect the law. If a law is there on paper, but no one will enforce it, then it isn’t a law. It’s just some words on paper.

Nice

Well, let me know if you’ve got any trouble. Oh, and do you have an HP? Those things SUCK at installing Linux. One of those things you have to find out from trying to install it on three separate HP devices.

I recently switched, and would be happy to give whatever rudimentary pointers I can. I’ve found that Linux mint is the best option for me. You can also easily flash it onto a USB and try it out to confirm compatibility.

The biggest things are these:

1. you have to make sure to backup anything you want, because the installation wipes the hard drive.
2. you must (usually) completely erase the windows partition, since the windows updater will usually bork the Linux install the moment you try to boot windows.
3. you should turn off SecureBoot and bitlocker before you attempt an installation.
4. rather than dual-booting windows with Linux, it is comparatively simple to set up a Virtual Machine running windows inside Linux.
5. if you’re getting really serious about privacy, you’re going to have a TON of services that you may be unable to access, because they are full of trackers and spyware. Baby steps are recommended before trying to make a clean break from all telemetry, tracking and spyware.if you use an android, try installing TrackerControl from f-droid (or, for one that doesn’t break as much stuff, Duckduckgo’s app tracking protection) and enable it. You’ll begin to see just how many calls to add, data brokers, telemetry, and other shit gets caught, and DDG doesn’t even touch all the google spyware.