Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Wed, 21 May 2025 09:46:49 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2025-05-20 23:27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Tue, 20 May 2025 08:57:24 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

You might want to read up on how Firefox has become spyware over the
last few years.

 
Somehow I don’t think that kind of thing gets past the distro
maintainers ...

 
Which is a hilarious thing to say since we know that the "many eyes"
don't actually look at the code to see what's in it.

Of course they do. That’s why we have de-Googled builds of Chromium, for
example. And why some upstream developers complain about the maintainers
of Debian and other distros, for the patches they make to their code.