Ditching Windows

install gentoo

>>61522306
Well if you have never Linux in your entire life, you're probably better off installing a retard-proof os like Ubuntu

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Choose the only distro where thumbnail preview in Firefox's file picker works from the start

openSUSE

>>61522306
Linux, particularly distros that use systemd, is still considered harmful. I would suggest OpenBSD as a less harmful alternative

How would i go about installing a new OS? Is it just running an exe and going from there or downloading it onto a flash drive and doing it that way

>>61522581
>neo /g/

>>61522612
I'm a wintard i've never used any other OS

>>61522622
Obviously, do you even know how to install windows?

>>61522668
Insert the CD or a flash drive with windows and select it in the boot menu

>>61522702
Congrats, you can install most noob friendly linux distros.

>>61522734
I'll dick about in a virtual machine and see which one i prefer

>>61522306
I want to get rid of my shitty Windows 8 OS but I am a gamer and I don't want to end up unable to play games because of it. Do games and other applications work in Linux as well?

>>61522734
Which ones?

>>61522406
working on my fresh ubuntu install?

>>61522830
dual boot

I would say ubuntu or mint are your best options.

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>>61522306
step 1: insert the DVD. install gentoo.

>OP asks for a more secure OS
>everyone suggests mainstream and semi-mainstream Linux distributions
Yeah, because grsecurity is totally unnecessary. Linux is not meant to be safe by default.

>>61522875
Alright I'll check out Ubuntu. My main problem with Win 8 is that the disk usage shoots up to 100% all of a sudden and the whole thing becomes damn near unusable. I would really like a way to solve that problem and I hope Linux does it.

>>61522858

no it doesn't.

feel free to post a screen if you want though

>>61522889
OP wasnt even sure how to install other OS's. Baby steps

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>>61522306
Xubuntu is what you really want.

Stable, efficient, sane. Fuck Unity, and fuck Gnome, and fuck KDE! All of 'em are bloated and silly. XFCE for life!

>>61522581
Go back to Facebook, normie.

>>61523184
If i was a normie i wouldn't be caring about my security

>>61522306
Start with ubuntu, then learn about the univ environment. You can distrohop and rice away after a week or so.

>>61522507
>free software
>harmful
that's not what stallman taught you

Linux is fine if you can make compromises, for example no web browser son Linux have hardware video decoding. Chromium should be recieving support for it soon on Linux but only with the vaapi accel that causes people video corruption.

There are lots of little things like this that add up, I just try debotnet my Windows 10 as much as possible with https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script and just suck it up, I like my computer and hardware I paid good money for to perform as good as possible rather than be crippled.

>>61522364
But nsa played a large part in Ubuntu so its a botnet VS backdoors

>>61523420
Guys, there are backdoors hardwired into the processor. There is no evading the NSA unless you have entirely open hardware.

>>61522306
upgrade to windows 7

>>61523439
wtf does this even mean

>>61522306
No operating systems today are secure. They are inherently limited by the ISA and the way IOMMU works.

If we want something secure that's what needs to change, and only then can we actually change operating systems to use it.

That said, any OS will do, it just depends on your needs, but going to Linux because it's somehow inherently more secure than Windows is stupid. What you might want to do is go there because you don't have processes running in the background transmitting metadata, and that's called privacy. For that, any FOSS operating system should do, be it Linux, a BSD or some kind of illumos. Make your pick. Qubes is nice only in the sense that you get out of the box and on demand various Linux distros and BSDs because you're essentially just running a hypervisor, but it is not in any way more secure.

>>61523439
Seems like a lot of people want Moar Security without actually thinking about what adversaries they actually have. Advertisers? Crypto ransom? War drivers? Physical intruders? State level actors? Cat on the keyboard?

>>61523642
It means that there are circuits within the CPU that are storing and sending information to the NSA, regardless of what software you're running on it. It's baked into the chip.

>>61523718
God forbid the NSA knows what arithmetic operations are going on :o

>Hey, feds, he incremented 0x00REEEEEE

How would that even be useful? gimme document/evidence or obvious troll

>>61523718
And how do they do that? Does each and every CPU have its own satellite uplink?

>>61523971
No, it just uses the network connection, but without reporting that use to the OS.

>>61524008
So you're saying thousands of security experts and people running firewalls across the globe (especially data centers and governments) never noticed suspicious packets going to the NSA? Or any packets they couldn't account for?

>>61524076
All the chips along the way have hardcoded backdoors that allow for secret packets to be sent without it being recorded.

>>61524226
Sounds reasonable.

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>>61524226
You gotta lay of the weed man

>>61523921
It's built into the remote management feayures of the processor. Hit the nic with a magic packet sequence and you get a remote execution channel.
This is in theory, because nobody can audit these "secure" processors and bin blobs. In reality, well fuck, it's probably true. The NSA has done worse.

>>61522936
I second this, plus it's the best looking XFCE distro out of the box. I've been using it stock for years now and I don't plan on switching.

>>61522328
fpbp

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>>61524508
>camel case

>>61522306
macOS

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>>61522306
slackware is the most secure linux distro

>>61522306
don't believe the distro hype bruh, all linux is the same damn thing except for how packages are handled. so decide by which package manager you'd like to use then do a minimal install and build what you wan

just go on youtube they show how to install any os you want

>>61522936
>xfce
>efficient
>not bloated
lol surely you mean lxqt unless you're like dumb or something

>>61522936
lts or regular if i want shit to just werk?

>>61522306
BSD

Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is the only factually correct answer.

>>61522306
>they're after my memes
I understand you've got very valuable things to protect, but maybe you should just start with a more accessible distro, like Mint. I'm sure the NSA won't steal all your frogs just yet.

>>61524703
that's absolutely retarded though
if you have any actual evidence this is close to viable i'd love to see it

if you're that confused, get a mac

at least they respect your privacy

Is ArchLinux a good option?

>>61522899
I had the same issue under windows. Moments of 100% cpu and disk, as well as overall high memory usage (2GB just to show the desktop).
I have had none of these issues on linux