Where can I get a non-Google kernel?

It’s not a strawman. You said “but I can read the source code!”. Do you? Because if you don’t, it doesn’t really matter, right?

Open Source means we can check and fix once discovered

How many % of your operating system’s source code have you 1) read and 2) understood?

I mean Linus did kick out some russians based on US sanctions

How exactly is that better than Windows?

open source

You are aware that there was a critical security hole in X for almost three decades, right?

Gentoo and Void are indeed my favourite Linux distributions. “No systemd” remains my favourite filter on Distrowatch. Void is basically “NetBSD, but fast”. I’d recommend it.

You have increasingly less choice in the Linux world though. Thank you, Lennart Poettering.

What makes you think that US-based entities like the Linux Foundation cannot be fined by the government?

Microsoft is subject to US authority, because they’re legally US-based. So are Linus Torvalds and the kernel foundation.

What kind of product do you think an operating system kernel is, whose development is driven by a US citizen (Linus Torvalds) under the patronage of a US foundation (Linux Foundation) and with significant involvement of several US companies (Red Hat, Microsoft, NSA) and is usually delivered with a whole host of software from US organisations (foremost: GNU), if not a US product?

OpenBSD.

You skipped my question. Let me repeat it: What kind of product do you think an operating system kernel is, whose development is driven by a US citizen (Linus Torvalds) under the patronage of a US foundation (Linux Foundation) and with significant involvement of several US companies (Red Hat, Microsoft, NSA) and is usually delivered with a whole host of software from US organisations (foremost: GNU), if not a US product?

That would be 9front though.

How exactly are the US-based stewards of Linux development not subject to US authority?

Yes, I think so. But I’m always open to constructive feedback: What kind of product do you think an operating system kernel is, whose development is driven by a US citizen (Linus Torvalds) under the patronage of a US foundation (Linux Foundation) and with significant involvement of several US companies (Red Hat, Microsoft, NSA) and is usually delivered with a whole host of software from US organisations (foremost: GNU), if not a US product?

Yes, of course, Linux has developers from all sorts of countries. But then, so do Windows and macOS.

However, as I wrote below:

I think that the first part of my comment was the more relevant part.

I think that the first part of my comment was the more relevant part.

I actually had tried a few Linuxen in the past 30 years, and while I still have a soft spot for Gentoo and Void (edit: I love how everyone just ignores this part…), I noticed that Linux distributions have deeply fallen for over-engineering recently, making them not notably better than Windows anymore. Also, migrating from one US product to another makes limited sense to me.

Why don’t they upgrade to a Canadian OS then?

You are aware that, unlike (e.g.) OpenBSD, Linux is (legally) an American product, right?

Its like asking a big American corporation to allow me to log in, knowing its tracking everything i do.

You are aware that, unlike (e.g.) OpenBSD, Linux is (legally) an American product, right?

Unix.