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Isn't it a bit of a pathetic approach to tackle this topic with: How can we turn off this telemetry craziness. Shouldn't we USE something that just does not sca
by zwarag 10y ago
Isn't it a bit of a pathetic approach to tackle this topic with: How can we turn off this telemetry craziness.
Shouldn't we USE something that just does not scan you're stuff at all. Like Linux or something?
Sure it might not be that well round up like Win. But at least it will not penetrate your bum hole by design and will become round up eventually.
- gbrown 10y agoWell, I try to for most applications, but I'm actually moving my wife's laptop back to windows. Linux was fine for most things, but when something breaks or doesn't work, I have to fix it - and I don't have the time. Getting hardware like Bluetooth or external touchscreens to work is an absolute nightmare with the state of driver support.
- jsudhams 10y agoTry getting enterprise version, no ads nothing and no phoning back home. If you care add a firewall rule for microsoft.com and other datacollection sites.
- usernam 10y agoIt sounds like linux breaks, but you know what happens when "stuff on windows breaks"? Well, it's the same: you'll have to fix it. Ubuntu LTS is really hard to break unless you're constantly screwing around. The same happens on windows. Don't complain about community-supported distros. Buy a commercially supported distribution with long term releases, and you're set.
- driverdan 10y agoLinux still doesn't work well on a lot of laptop hardware.
- r3bl 10y agoWhat do you mean by "doesn't work well on a lot of laptop hardware"? I'm using Lenovo Yoga 510, not Ubuntu-certified, two-in-one device with a touchscreen and a dedicated graphics card. Sure, there's no such thing as a tablet mode in any of the Linux distributions at the moment, but it works. WiFi works. Touchscreen works. Open source graphics driver works. Battery usage has no noticeable difference compared to Windows. In my three or four years of running Ubuntu-based distributions, I'm yet to find a single laptop where WiFi / sound card / touch screen or any other piece of laptop hardware that doesn't work.
- driverdan 10y agoThere are still sleep / hibernation issues and excessive power use. Plus as you said, tablet mode doesn't work.
- usernam 10y agoI'm only using linux, and any company-provided laptop I've been using after 2010, at least a different one every year, was working without any driver issue. This included various models of HP, Dell and Lenovo. I'm currently on a brand new Lenovo Yoga X1, again with absolutely no issue whatsoever.
- hedora 10y agoDoes anyone have experience with Linux certified laptops? I was looking at a Linux-friendly ultrabook at the Microsoft store, and the win 10 trackpad drivers did not support scrolling on the display model. facepalm I guess my question is whether windows laptops are actually less troublesome than preloaded/known-good linux laptops, in practice.
- LinuxFreedom 10y agoThis is false. The opposite is true - Linux runs on many, many laptops without any problems.
- Mikeb85 10y agoBut it also works perfectly on a lot of laptop hardware.
- Sylos 10y agoWell, moving to Linux is kind of too obvious to even discuss, at least on HN. I'm sure, there's a huge number of people who've already moved over to Linux, just silently reading through the comments.