

The state of Ohio developed the program because it recognizes the need to encourage, nurture, and support the growth of economically and socially disadvantaged businesses to foster their development and increase the number of qualified competitors in the marketplace. The EDGE program is designed to assist socially and economically disadvantaged businesses in obtaining state government contracts in the following areas: construction, architecture, and engineering professional services goods and services and information technology services. Their search results are excellent, their respect for privacy and invasiveness while browsing are very poor.Ap| Agency Encouraging Diversity Growth and Equity Program (EDGE) Not sure staying 100% out of the Google Universe is possible but they can be kept at bay fairly well. I like it, extremely fast, very bland looking but who cares?! There’s a minimal version of DDG called DDG Lite.

A mix of search results from everywhere with extreme customization possibilities go too far, Qwant no longer works but not hard to find a good combination of search engines.

Lots of privacy settings available in the Settings pages.ĭDG Maps uses Apple Maps, fairly close to Google Maps these days. Yes, it uses Google results, among others but keeps you more or less isolated from them. Windows although the things most users do day to day are very accessible. Honestly, the Linux world for an average user is somewhat limited vs. I’ve tried a dozen or so distros and currently use Ubuntu on a laptop and home server, mostly because it works reliably and Windows’ server software is stupid expensive today.

Use the OS to run third parties for browsing, office, pics/video and security (AV, definitely/firewall, maybe.) Why give MS ALL your data?
