https://medium.com/@kellyrush/practical-privacy-linux-ac36d91309fb

How are you reading this article right now? Recent trends say that you’re more than likely reading it on a phone; however, if you’re more the traditional type, and you’re reading this on a laptop (or, gasp, even a desktop), then you’re probably using either Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS. Those are both wonderful, modern operating systems, but they’re not especially great for ensuring your data isn’t being shared (especially in the case of Windows 10). For those of you who put a priority on privacy though, there is another option: Linux.

The story of Linux begins in the early 1990s, in Helsinki, Finland, with a college student name Linus Torvalds. Frustrated by the state of Unix operating system licenses, he wrote his own operating system kernel, and released it under the GNU GPL, making it available for anyone to use and modify. Throughout the rest of the 1990s, other developers began building on top of this foundation to create the base of what we think of today as “Linux”. In those early days, Linux had a reputation for being incredibly hard for average computer users to install, let alone use every day.