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  • I have stopped dual booting 2 years ago. I don’t need the proprietary apps and most proprietary apps that I was using I already replaced with FOSS ones before I even switched to Linux (in fact the only proprietary application in my computer right now is Steam and some games), so my switch to it 3 years ago was seamless. I have never tried Windows 11 and hope to never touch Windows again. The only time I am dealing with Windows is when I am in school and dealing with my sister’s computer.

    If you really need Windows, you can run it in a VM.

    I love the open source community.













  • Actually I’ve been thinking about this more and I’ve changed my mind. If someone really wants to figure out who voted, they probably still can. It just makes it a bit harder, not impossible.

    Say user X makes a post in a dead community and gets a comment from user Y. Then user X upvotes that comment. Now the comment has only two votes. One is from Y themselves and the other is almost certainly from X. The chances would be even higher if X replies to that comment too.

    Or imagine a situation where user X and user Z are arguing and start downvoting each other. Depending on how new the comments are and how active the post is, it’s still possible to connect the downvotes to their real accounts

    Which is why I now think the only real way to make voting private is to generate a completely new voting account for every single vote. That would make it impossible to trace the votes back to the user across posts/comments.


  • If the accounts aren’t randomized, which I think weren’t, then yes, this is possible to do. If the voting timestamps are also recorded, then it is as easy as checking the oldest vote in a comment/post. To make it harder for someone to associate your voting account with your actual account, you would either need to:

    • collect votes and send in randomized order (I think a minimum of 3 votes is good)
    • create a new voting account on each vote
    • disable voting your own comment/post

    I think the best would be creating a new voting account on each vote, but that would kill moderation.