Open Source and Free Software

Although I do generally install their updates, and run AVG anti-virus, and make sure my firewalls are working.

If you install Windows first, Ubuntu can repartition the drive and install a boot loader that lets you select which OS you wish to run at boot time (when you turn it on). You get dual boot, and you get a convenient way to choose which to run, and how much disk space to give each.

Most of the security troubles Microsoft has are to do with Outlook (their user-mail-handler botch) and Internet Explorer (their internet browser botch) which I never use voluntarily.

The other thing is I don't DO things on the internet that I want kept private. You will never find my dick there. I assume my email is public, anybody can see it. While I do buy things on the web now and then, I avoid it, and I never use PayPal. No "accounts" for random sites I visit, sometimes I lie about who I am. (That can be interesting, you can find out who is sellng you by giving different sites different info and seeing what names show up on your junk mail. I don't do social media at all (except DU). I have a few financial accounts on the web, but try to avoid that too. The recent blowup over SSL had little effect on me, I don't use that stuff, and the things I do use have their shit together.

And still I am sure the watchers know lots about me.

Happiness is knowing you are not much exposed to the risks.