exodus
We believe your computer should answer to you — not to shareholders who profit when it doesn't.
Almost every computer you touch answers to one of three vast corporate entities:
- Microsoft — Windows
- Apple — macOS & iOS
- Google — Android & ChromeOS
These companies are not your friends.
Windows and macOS were never built to serve you — they were built to serve shareholders. Every default setting in Android, every "improvement" in iOS, every redesign is shaped by the same incentive: to keep you within their walled garden, keep you upgrading, keep the data flowing to whoever profits from it.
It's a quiet, insidious kind of control. Somewhere along the way you stopped owning your software and began renting it. Installing Linux is how you loosen that invisible grip on your life and take back ownership of your computer.
You won't be the first to switch. Not even close.
Linux is for everyone.
Millions of ordinary people run it every day on all sorts of computers and devices — to write emails, browse the internet, edit photos, pay bills.
Linux was built by the people for the people. It's free and open-source software — code anyone can read, audit, and improve, built in the open by a global community instead of a boardroom. No ads to sell, no data to harvest, no shareholders to please.
Governments and institutions have already noticed which way the wind is blowing. France's national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, runs Linux on over 100,000 desktops. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein state government is migrating 30,000 computers off Windows entirely. South Korea has committed to moving its government agencies to Linux. NASA switched the laptops on the International Space Station to Linux for reliability. And most of the internet itself — the servers behind Google, Amazon, and Meta — already runs on Linux.
Now we're going to help you make the switch too — from an operating system designed to extract profit, to one built to actually work for you.
Buying an expensive new computer won't make you happy.
But installing Linux on your existing computer will.
Big tech thrives on planned obsolescence — software bloat designed to make yesterday's perfectly good machine feel slow and unusable, nudging you to buy hardware you don't actually need. Every unnecessary upgrade means more mining, more manufacturing, more shipping, and eventually more e-waste poisoning our planet in a landfill. Keeping the computer you already own out of the trash is one of the simplest environmental choices you'll ever make.
You don't need to be a tech genius to do this. You just need a clear, simple set of steps. And that's why we created this guide.