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I guess if you not considered linux after windows 10 and windows 11, recall also won't make you consider linux.

by micw 2y ago

qwertox 2y ago
I know that I'm going to move away. I just don't know if to MacOS or Linux. I'll wait until the M4 Mac Studio is released and then decide.
- jakogut 2y ago
  Out of the frying pan, into the fire. At a certain point it becomes apparent that proprietary operating system vendors don't have your best interest at heart, and the only winning move is software freedom.
mey 2y ago
Annoying popups to enable OneDrive are bad but not catastrophic compared to the functionality Windows provides. This feels like it is.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
  > Annoying popups to enable OneDrive are bad but not catastrophic To be fair, it really is scores and scores of jabs to avoid in Windows - with more added bi-weekly. Today I had to counter (for many users) 1) the orange notify dot (start menu->user) trying to lure users into a non-consensual Microsoft account setup and 2) the clickable suggestions on the lock screen, carefully positioned in the click-space where the password box will be. It's like MS found a copy of Creepy Uncle For Dummies and hovered for hours over every page.
koolba 2y ago
At some point the frog does jump out of the pot.
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nucleardog 2y ago
Not everyone sees a candy crush ad or some basic telemetry if you're not willing to pony up the $150 for the "Pro" edition as a complete moral outrage. For those that don't the downsides of using Windows are generally less than the downsides of using Linux. For many people, the idea that their computer will be making a full recording of literally everything they do on their computer might be enough to tip the scales. (Yes, there's always been telemetry, but we're talking the difference between some guy that sits outside your neighbourhood and writes down what time of day cars come and leave versus some guy with a video camera that follows you between your bedroom and bathroom and records while you sleep, shower and shit, but totally promises to not show anyone the recording. This is pretty obviously different.) I say this as someone that's used Linux and BSD for over three decades... on servers. Ran Windows on my desktop (including Windows 10 for over half a decade). Every year or two I'd throw Linux on my computer and see how it did. A couple years back is when we finally got to the point where at least all the essential functionality I needed worked out of the box. The downsides of using Linux were less than that of Windows, and I immediately wiped the drive, installed Linux, and have used it exclusively since. This sort of stuff, if it couldn't be disabled, would have definitely tipped the scales in Linux's favour much sooner.

I guess if you not considered linux after windows 10 and windows 11, recall also won't make you consider linux.

by micw 2y ago

I guess if you not considered linux after windows 10 and windows 11, recall also won't make you consider linux.

I know that I'm going to move away. I just don't know if to MacOS or Linux. I'll wait until the M4 Mac Studio is released and then decide.

jakogut 2y ago
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. At a certain point it becomes apparent that proprietary operating system vendors don't have your best interest at heart, and the only winning move is software freedom.

mey 2y ago

Annoying popups to enable OneDrive are bad but not catastrophic compared to the functionality Windows provides. This feels like it is.

WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
> Annoying popups to enable OneDrive are bad but not catastrophic To be fair, it really is scores and scores of jabs to avoid in Windows - with more added bi-weekly. Today I had to counter (for many users) 1) the orange notify dot (start menu->user) trying to lure users into a non-consensual Microsoft account setup and 2) the clickable suggestions on the lock screen, carefully positioned in the click-space where the password box will be. It's like MS found a copy of Creepy Uncle For Dummies and hovered for hours over every page.

koolba 2y ago

At some point the frog does jump out of the pot.

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nucleardog 2y ago

Not everyone sees a candy crush ad or some basic telemetry if you're not willing to pony up the $150 for the "Pro" edition as a complete moral outrage. For those that don't the downsides of using Windows are generally less than the downsides of using Linux. For many people, the idea that their computer will be making a full recording of literally everything they do on their computer might be enough to tip the scales. (Yes, there's always been telemetry, but we're talking the difference between some guy that sits outside your neighbourhood and writes down what time of day cars come and leave versus some guy with a video camera that follows you between your bedroom and bathroom and records while you sleep, shower and shit, but totally promises to not show anyone the recording. This is pretty obviously different.) I say this as someone that's used Linux and BSD for over three decades... on servers. Ran Windows on my desktop (including Windows 10 for over half a decade). Every year or two I'd throw Linux on my computer and see how it did. A couple years back is when we finally got to the point where at least all the essential functionality I needed worked out of the box. The downsides of using Linux were less than that of Windows, and I immediately wiped the drive, installed Linux, and have used it exclusively since. This sort of stuff, if it couldn't be disabled, would have definitely tipped the scales in Linux's favour much sooner.