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Then get Debian or Fedora. I'm serious, if the OS is doing things so bad you're willing to execute untrusted code with elevated privileges to modify the OS, you

by cwyers 10y ago

Then get Debian or Fedora. I'm serious, if the OS is doing things so bad you're willing to execute untrusted code with elevated privileges to modify the OS, you've already lost.

leonatan 10y ago
It is never black and white. Moving to Linux would only be feasible when the vast software library is available on Linux, including, but not limited to, productivity, games, media playback, drivers (hardware support). In the mean time, scripts like these fill holes that should not be there in Windows. I do agree that people executing this script should not only rely on "it's open source, so smart people will look at it and find issues", but actually research and fully understand what is going on.
ProAm 10y ago
> willing to execute untrusted code with elevated privileges to modify the OS Everything in that script is straightforward and if not easily googled to determine what its doing. It's not black magic.
- tomc1985 10y ago
  Its just FUD
tomc1985 10y ago
This machine is dual boots Win 7 and Linux Mint. Work is an older MBP and another LM desktop. There's one laptop with Win10 that's kept around mainly to keep up with the tech and it would be really nice to turn off all that extra MS bullshit. But I have to question your attitude, especially here on a forum called "Hacker News"; why do you advocate against exercising ownership over one's rightful property? Microsoft already got their money and they should leave users the hell alone. There is a proud history of hacking one's PC and poking big brother in the eye, don't forget that! I walked up to my laptop and in the upper-left corner of the screen Cortana wants me to try ordering Star Wars tickets. Fuck you Cortana, don't tell me what to do!!!!
- cwyers 10y ago
  It's called Hacker News, not Script Kiddie News, and the difference between understanding what you're doing (or at least, doing something with the intent of learning something from it) and running someone else's code without understanding what it does is pretty much the demarcation point between being a hacker and being a script kiddie.
  - tomc1985 10y ago
    As it has always been and always will be. Some will blindly run it, some will review it before running it, some download just to rip out the bits and pieces they like. Some just want to understand the OS...
userbinator 10y ago
"untrusted" by who? You? I have a bit of a pet peeve about the word "untrusted", because it leaves open who is doing the trusting.
Noseshine 10y ago
Very few Linux users understand what all those daemons are doing on their system. I certainly don't, and - albeit a long long time ago (kernel 2.4) - I even wrote Linux kernel code (networking: firewall and NAT).

by cwyers 10y ago

Then get Debian or Fedora. I'm serious, if the OS is doing things so bad you're willing to execute untrusted code with elevated privileges to modify the OS, you've already lost.

leonatan 10y ago

It is never black and white. Moving to Linux would only be feasible when the vast software library is available on Linux, including, but not limited to, productivity, games, media playback, drivers (hardware support). In the mean time, scripts like these fill holes that should not be there in Windows. I do agree that people executing this script should not only rely on "it's open source, so smart people will look at it and find issues", but actually research and fully understand what is going on.

ProAm 10y ago

> willing to execute untrusted code with elevated privileges to modify the OS Everything in that script is straightforward and if not easily googled to determine what its doing. It's not black magic.

tomc1985 10y ago
Its just FUD

tomc1985 10y ago

This machine is dual boots Win 7 and Linux Mint. Work is an older MBP and another LM desktop. There's one laptop with Win10 that's kept around mainly to keep up with the tech and it would be really nice to turn off all that extra MS bullshit. But I have to question your attitude, especially here on a forum called "Hacker News"; why do you advocate against exercising ownership over one's rightful property? Microsoft already got their money and they should leave users the hell alone. There is a proud history of hacking one's PC and poking big brother in the eye, don't forget that! I walked up to my laptop and in the upper-left corner of the screen Cortana wants me to try ordering Star Wars tickets. Fuck you Cortana, don't tell me what to do!!!!

cwyers 10y ago
It's called Hacker News, not Script Kiddie News, and the difference between understanding what you're doing (or at least, doing something with the intent of learning something from it) and running someone else's code without understanding what it does is pretty much the demarcation point between being a hacker and being a script kiddie.
- tomc1985 10y ago
  As it has always been and always will be. Some will blindly run it, some will review it before running it, some download just to rip out the bits and pieces they like. Some just want to understand the OS...

userbinator 10y ago

"untrusted" by who? You? I have a bit of a pet peeve about the word "untrusted", because it leaves open who is doing the trusting.

Noseshine 10y ago

Very few Linux users understand what all those daemons are doing on their system. I certainly don't, and - albeit a long long time ago (kernel 2.4) - I even wrote Linux kernel code (networking: firewall and NAT).