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Yeah but then you have to use Windows. This way you can use Linux and just run windows in a VM. The good way. The privacy respecting way.
by fartcannon 5y ago
Yeah but then you have to use Windows. This way you can use Linux and just run windows in a VM. The good way. The privacy respecting way.
- jchw 5y agoOh yeah, I am not recommending people use Windows. I find it absolutely miserable. Just trying to play a bit of devil’s advocate I suppose.
- FpUser 5y agoI run both Linux and Windows. Somehow I manage not to feel miserable. Both have made and keep making me decent money.
- jchw 5y agoI can make money on either. Making money is not the problem here. But if you don’t feel a tinge of misery every time Windows Update “accidentally” makes Edge the default browser and you have to jump through dark patterns to disable it, every time start search lags because it’s contacting Bing even though you just want to launch calc.exe, every time you reinstall and Candy Crush is sitting there waiting for you, or every time you accidentally connect to WiFi during windows setup only to forget that it won’t let you set up a local account if you do, then we can’t be friends. If it doesn’t feel like I control my computer, it doesn’t matter how polished the UI looks or how fast the games run. It’s a non-starter.
- fartcannon 5y agoThere should be a name for the misery of what you're describing. I call it privacy whack-a-mol, but it needs a better term. Something bleaker.
- copperx 5y agoThe death of computer ownership.
- FpUser 5y agoI am not sure why but it never happened to me (stealing my default browser). As for search - When I type "c" I immediately see Chrome icon and continuing typing "a" show calc. No delays, everything is instant. I admit that if I saw web results instead of local apps I'd be mad. But I have gobbles of Windows installations at my house and none of those have this problem, starting from that tiny compute stick hooked up to a large TV that my grandson uses to watch Netflix.