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i use windows because its the only os i know how to use. i want to get into things like torrenting because free stuff is cool but im afraid to. ive heard of tails os, a os that boots from a flash drive, is that worth checking out or should i stick with windows?

what is your advice? what should i do?

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[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (12 children)

If you care about privacy and wanna use Windows... God help you...

You want Linux my friend

[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

...and if you want to torrent then you need a respectable peer-to-peer VPN service like ProtonVPN

[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] zzzzz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mullvad is no longer ideal for torrenting because they discontinued port forwarding. Airvpn is a good alternative that still provides port forwarding.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The topic is privacy, torrents are not very private to begin with, and Mullvad uses disk-less servers and you can pay with cash.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

i want to get into things like torrenting

The second line of the original post. The topic is privacy and torrenting

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