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• LinuxBender 5y ago
  It is sad that things like this are even required in the first place. I would really like to have more trust and confidence in Microsoft. To earn that trust they could provide one page with all PowerShell sub-commands and links from each command to a man/help page with real world examples so I don't have to trawl through technet and google or random github gists. They could also give people a true option during installation to really for-really-real disable telemetry regardless of what license home, pro, enterprise, ltsc they are using.
  • marcodiego 5y ago
    Fragmentation is not in ms best interest, but they could actually license just the nt kernel with a bootloader capable of launching it. Then people could build nt based distros with carefully chosen packages. Just like it is done with GNU/Linux. Maybe some one could write an application to delete as many files as possible from a pristine windows copy to turn it simply into a kernel launched by a bootloader. Is there any project that does that?
    • LinuxBender 5y ago
      That's an appealing idea. From watching the behavior of XBox One and Windows 10, I would be really surprised if they created such a thing. It really seems more like they want people to have dumb terminals with their binaries pseudo-cached and operate more like a mainframe/cloud model.