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>My PC is not a toy, and is owned by me, not by you. * Don't reboot it without my consent * Don't install/run advertising without my consent * Don't install/run
by Arizhel 9y ago
>My PC is not a toy, and is owned by me, not by you.
* Don't reboot it without my consent
* Don't install/run advertising without my consent
* Don't install/run spyware without my consent
* Don't keep interrupting my work to nag me for my consent
Wrong: you are implicitly agreeing to the above 4 behaviors if you willingly use a Microsoft OS. Any time you select a vendor, you implicitly agree to their business practices and the way their product/service works. For MS, that means you consent to it rebooting whenever it wants, advertising to you, spying on you, and interrupting your work to nag you for consent. If you don't agree with these things, then you need to find another vendor.
>The best solution, of course, is to switch to a stable Linux distro.
Exactly!
- zanny 9y agoI don't know why you are getting downvoted. If people want to reclaim sovereignty over their computers while also using proprietary operating systems, they will need to get laws passed. Right now, your only right is to buy the hardware you want. From there, that hardware can deny you the right to install another OS, deny you the right to change the hardware, or deny you the right of knowing how the hardware works. Without those, you aren't much of an owner of anything.
- Arizhel 9y agoI'm getting downvoted because this site is full of Microsoft sycophants. It happens every time I say anything about Microsoft here. I'll get a few upvotes from people like yourself who agree with me on issues like the one here, but then I'll get swamped with downvotes from the MS lovers.