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YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
- ChrisArchitect 11mo ago[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503
- bigwheels 11mo agoYouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503 - 9 days ago, 497 comments
- brulard 11mo agoAlthough the reason was absurd, videos were eventually restored.
- superxpro12 11mo agoTBH the title is clickbait given the outcome.
- fortran77 11mo agoAnd we see how many people here on HN don't read the article.
- makeitdouble 11mo agoAre you arguing that - the videos haven't been removed - the removal part of the story doesn't matter much, and shouldn't be the focus in the title ?
- im3w1l 11mo agoIsn't the damage done though? Like if they were down at the time when people were told that win10 reached end of support and it's time to get on 11 does it matter that they are up now? Anyway I doubt youtube did this intentionally, but it does show how vulnerable their system is to false reports.
- superkuh 11mo agoThe point is to prevent viral videos from getting widely viewed during their peak. To cut it off. It doesn't matter if the block is removed some days or weeks later and then there's a trickle of traffic. This is the status quo for corporations that wish to suppress content on Alphabet's platforms. Another well known recent example is Forbes attacks on Gamer's Nexus investigative documentary on the GPU black market that competed with their video.
- rs186 11mo ago> Rich appealed both immediately. The first appeal was denied in 45 minutes. The second in just five. > The platform claimed its "initial actions" (could be either the first takedown or appeal denial, or both) were not the result of automation. Didn't know YouTube can improve their review time from 45 minutes to 5 minutes without automation. I bet it's pure magic.
- candiddevmike 11mo agoI'm sure someone is figuring out a new version of the DMCA that prohibits circumventing data collection "in the name of preserving copyright".
- ronsor 11mo agoIf the DRM can't spy on you, you could be a pirate!
- dlgeek 11mo agoI mean... documenting the details of the investigation to support the first decision and relying on the documented details the second time would easily explain that.
- baobun 11mo agoI would love but probably be horrified to see the documented support for "serious physical harm or death".
- cortesoft 11mo agoI am reading that to mean that they are automatically denying the appeals because it was a human who chose to take the action so it can’t be appealed.
- WesolyKubeczek 11mo agoRisk of physical harm? Should I perceive that as a… threat?
- twelvedogs 11mo agoSatya Nadella will kick in your door
- themaninthedark 11mo agoWatch out for chairs...
- bossyTeacher 11mo agoThe sci-fi movies warn us about evil robots. Turns out the evil entity was Microsoft and other big tech companies all along
- throw262144 11mo agoIndeed; those who are worried about the possibility of paperclip optimizers should take a look at the profit optimizers that exist today.
- AnimalMuppet 11mo agoYou see, Windows 11 has new, improved, patented prevent-the-computer-from-physically-beating-up-the-user technology. But this technology requires an online account; you can't trust a local-only account to prevent the computer from beating you up, because it's on the computer in question (duh). So we prevent you from learning how to bypass the requirement for a remote account for your own physical safety. /s, in case that wasn't blatantly obvious...
- 1000100_1000101 11mo agoPerhaps someone at Microsoft threatened physical harm to a Google engineer if they didn't remove the videos... and they caved into their demands rather than reporting the threat, or perhaps did both.
- system2 11mo agoWhat's next? Utilman.exe tutorials removal?
- alex1138 11mo ago[flagged]
- g42gregory 11mo agoUnfortunately, this brings an obvious question: If they sensor something like this, how could we trust platforms with the actually important subjects?
- nicce 11mo agoWe can’t anymore. Simple as that.
- damnesian 11mo agowe put way too much faith in them. It's easy to fake authoritative when your substance is virtual.
- lazide 11mo agolol, the evening news was always a laugh if you knew anything about the subject matter.
- zahlman 11mo agoSuppose we hadn't done so; what alternative method of disseminating information might we have used, that would have had within a few orders of magnitude of the same reach?
- squigz 11mo agoThe implication here is that YouTube enabled the reach it got; whereas in reality the reach was induced because of the faith we put in it. Had we not done so, then whatever alternative method of communication we did put our faith in - like blog posts, or self-hosting videos - would have had the same reach.
- pdonis 11mo agoI agree with this except for the "anymore" part. We never could trust them. It just wasn't as obvious before as it is now.
- Madmallard 11mo agoWhy is this allowed to occur? Why is Microsoft allowed to operate in such a user hostile way? Why aren't people like up in arms massively tanking their stock value, boycotting, reputation harming in every legal way possible en masse? Like are people just careless and distracted 24/7? Like surely this should just not be a thing? I just don't understand how inhumane hostile behavior is just so rampant and like allowed to exist in our society.
- mostlysimilar 11mo agoBecause the only mechanism to hold these mega corporations / billionaires accountable is government, and they're already powerful enough to have waged massive information wars convincing people to fight each other instead of them.
- hilbert42 11mo agoEventually, enough is enough. 1789.
- techright75 11mo ago[dead]
- immibis 11mo agoThat's actually not the only way we can hold them to account.
- pants2 11mo agoWhy should I care that much what Microsoft is doing? I sold my Windows 11 computer long ago and haven't looked back. In fact, more user-hostile they get the better that is for the Linux ecosystem which is better for me!
- 1718627440 11mo agoI think it will be better with a little bit higher marketshare, but once the masses come in they demand stuff like kernel-level anticheat, DRM and to never accidentally run things in a terminal and then it will become way worse. Linux is as user-friendly as it is, because it is used by professionals and power users and the masses use something else.
- WXLCKNO 11mo agoBit beside the point but Windows 11 is the first version since Windows 3.1 that I haven't used. Nuked my Windows 10 install and put Pop OS on it + a MacBook separately.
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- noir_lord 11mo agoI've dual booted since the 90's and have run Microsoft OS's somewhere since the 80's. I had Windows 11 (kept it around for gaming), I binned it a few weeks ago. Don't game enough to justify it any more (haven't even tried gaming on linux yet). Juice was no longer worth the squeeze.
- saubeidl 11mo agoGaming on Linux is quite good these days, as long as you don't need any kernel-level anticheat for multiplayer. Proton is an impressive piece of software.
- Forgeties79 11mo agoBazzite baybeeeee
- elzbardico 11mo agoI don't game much, but as a parent, we have both a ps5 and a xbox. Frankly, console graphics are good enough for me. I don't see much point in having a gaming PC. Actually, I would trade visuals for better games. Most games nowadays are better enjoyed as movies than games.
- golemotron 11mo agoAnd now 'physical' becomes as hyperbolized as 'violence.'
- phkahler 11mo agoNo, "physical harm".
- Supermancho 11mo agoA small step. Some of us have seen it weaponized in my lifetime, some think it's ridiculous until it's not.
- shevy-java 11mo agoGoogle censors the world, together with Microsoft. Well - it is time that the rest of the world censors these two corporation. I don't want them to restrict information. People will find workarounds by the way. This is now a Streisand effect - as people see that Google and Microsoft try to hide information from them, they will now look at this much more closely than before, with more attention. (Having said that, my bypass strategy is to not use Windows 11 altogether. I don't depend on it, having used Linux since 21 years now, but my machine to the left is actually using Win10, for various reasons, such as that I can fix problems of elderly relatives still using Windows. But I won't use Win11 ever with its recall-spy software. I also don't care that it can be disabled - any corporation that tries to sniff-invade on me, is evil and must be banned.) Edit: Ok so the video was restored. That was good, but still, we need an alternative here. Google holds WAY too much power via youtube.
- tacker2000 11mo agoAlso Visa/Mastercard are big silencers…
- hammock 11mo agoWhat do you mean?
- worthless-trash 11mo agoPossibly referring to them pressuring companies from selling adult contact they dont like by threatening to cut off payment capability.
- dns_snek 11mo agoPayments providers engage in censorship and moral policing, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-vis...
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- mindcrash 11mo agoOnce the masses discover that KDE is just as user friendly as Windows these days, ... ... and that it is relatively easy to run (most) Windows apps they love through Bottles (https://usebottles.com/ https://usebottles.com/), and/or WinApps (https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps)... ... oof
- Pxtl 11mo agoI've been doing my first journey w Linux as a daily driver and I'm not loving Mint+Cinnamon, what's the best distro for KDE?
- limagnolia 11mo agoThe better question would be what is the best distro for you. Personally I like Debian. But I don't know enough about you and how you use your computer to say for sure what is best for you.
- Pxtl 11mo agoDevops-heavy development, but been a Windows desktop user up until now, with linux just running on servers. I'll probably go with Kubuntu just because I want something as vanilla as possible with the largest support-base.
- limagnolia 11mo agoI used Kubuntu for years, but ultimately moved away from the Ubuntu based distros due to Canonical cruft. I haven't really missed anything going with vanilla Debian.
- petepete 11mo agoI'd recommend Fedora KDE, it's vanilla and well used enough to be able to easily find answers. https://www.fedoraproject.org/kde/ https://www.fedoraproject.org/kde/ Ubuntu based distros are fine too, but there are a few weird things to get to grips with like Snaps. There's really not much difference between most distros these days so I'm sure if you like one you'd like the other.
- insane_dreamer 11mo agoThere are a lot of videos on YouTube about things that have a “risk of physical harm” and this is what they choose to pick on??
- __loam 11mo agoIt’s all automated, of course there are false positives
- autoexec 11mo agoIf a company chooses to automate something that should not be a defense. They should still be held equally accountable for their actions no matter if they employ a human or an algorithm to do their censorship for them. If they know their software/automation is shit and keeps screwing up, they're still making the choice to continue using it.
- damonachey 11mo agoI would think this selective action could / should open them up to litigation for all the other harmful things on their site
- henvic 11mo agoFeels like AI going wild with censorship regardless of what they say lol I wonder if this is because Windows 11 has been used in critical systems to a certain extent?
- gorjusborg 11mo agoI no longer run a Microsoft OS on any of the computers I own. This type of behavior is the reason. Linux is good enough for most everything I do, for the rest is MacOS.
- Pxtl 11mo agoMeanwhile AI products occasionally talk kids into killing themselves and that's okay.
- Evidlo 11mo agoThe videos were restored, though...
- Simulacra 11mo agoOh this is going to get the Streisand effect.
- hshdhdhehd 11mo agoThey cant remove all the Ubuntu installation tutorials surely?
- wafflemaker 11mo agoSo why shouldn't I use the windows 11 on the other partition that I use for games that don't run on Linux or run with degraded performance? (Yeah, it's Nvidia, no, I didn't do my homework and bought Nvidia for a Linux PC). While it may make sense for others, I don't find system that can lock up for 11 hours for updates suitable for anything other than occasional gaming. But why shouldn't I use it for it? I already think twice before getting any game that doesn't run on Linux and gave EA WRC Rally a downvote after they rug pulled Linux users. (A game that run on Linux on the beginning got borked with anticheat. A racing game, so you don't cheat your friends by having 1s less on that race you all compete on).
- prmoustache 11mo agoThere is no worse usage of windows than the occasional one given the huge amount of updates it starts to download whenever you start it up after a long period unused. I guess it might be useful if you only keep it offline but in that case you aren't playing games online and thus you would be fine gaming on Linux given the only downside is lack of anticheat support.
- heavyset_go 11mo agoA Windows update will eventually overwrite your bootloader and you won't be able to boot into Linux without some fuckery.
- simoncion 11mo agoMy Windows "fun" was when it decided that the "unknown" space immediately after its little boot partition was free for it to expand into. (Imagine not being able to recognize an ext2 filesystem...) After repairing that disaster, I ensured it would never happen again by putting Windows onto its own harddrive. That's worked for a great many years. Though, now that I've quite a bit of personal experience with how good Steam/Proton is for video games, I think I'll reclaim the surprisingly large amount of space that Windows is taking up.
- henriquemaia 11mo agoThe video in question does present a risk of death... to Windows. (Nah, that wording is but a generic legalese sounding way of casting a huge net to get all sorts of fish.)
- lenerdenator 11mo agoThe whole Windows 11 saga can be titled, "Dr. Bashlove, or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love the *NIX". Hard to believe this is the same company that made Windows 7. Coulda just ported WSL and security fixes back to that and stopped there. But nooooo.
- sleepyguy 11mo agoMassgrave...that is all...
- lax4ever 11mo agoEven easier, Schneegans
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoMaybe they mixed it up with mental harm from using Windows 11 and that's why they removed Windows 11 content.
- googlryas 11mo agoCan anyone provide any attempt at rationalizing their decision? Could your computer overheat and explode if you do this? Could hackers take over your computer and play a flashing light pattern that will give you an epileptic seizure?
- salawat 11mo agoStop assuming good faith. This is the same company that acquired Skype and de-P2P'd it at the pressing of the U.S. government to make interception feasible. Microsoft just wants you reliant on them. They can't tap value if you aren't integrated. Simple as.
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- fortran77 11mo ago> Then came the twist. YouTube eventually restored both videos. The platform claimed its "initial actions" (could be either the first takedown or appeal denial, or both) were not the result of automation. The videos are back. It's also possible that a group of people "brigade" reported his posts for some reason. YouTubers attract haters, too.
- puppycodes 11mo agoI forsee a lobby to the government for further restriction on our freedom of speech by google and others as these companies can't compete with open source and decentralized alternatives that are beginning to offer really well made alternatives.
- hilbert42 11mo agoThat will only happen if we let it. Observations indicate we're approaching a point of inflection. We've had about three decades of Big Tech running a serfdom, unless power starts shifting back to users we'll be locked-in serfs for good. I reckon most of us don't actually realize how much trouble we're in already.
- zahlman 11mo ago> That will only happen if we let it. What actions could we take that actually matter here?
- userbinator 11mo agoStop using Windows 11.
- chmod775 11mo agoThis is meek and seems almost resigned. I don't understand how discourse and responses around these kinds of strange, bewildering, or stupid corporate decisions is always so nice. This corporate bullshit thrives in respectful environments where nobody needs to be afraid of being told how it is and publicly humiliated for their obviously disingenuous or stupid behavior. When you're dealing with full-on idiots like that "support specialist" (AI?), all bets are off anyways. Might as well tell that clown that what he just said is the dumbest shit you've heard all week. Take off the gloves and burn some bridges if you have to, the world will be better place for it.
- 0xcb0 11mo agoYou can watch the latest Hollywood movies for free on YouTube and they don't care about any copyright, but if it's for showing a genocide to the world or bypassing Windows tutorials, YouTube lost it's spirit.
- BobbyTables2 11mo agoThis is a blessing in disguise. Now more people will be motivated to migrate AWAY from Windows since they will have no bypass.
- hilbert42 11mo ago"Now more people…." Yes, some will but unfortunately in actual per capita/percentage terms it'll be pathetically small. Do you really think the marketers, economists and social scientists at Microsoft haven't got that figure off to a tee aready? It's a certainty they have and they've figured it just amounts to noise in the grand schema of things. .
- pnt12 11mo agoIt's often a mistake to think that companies are these perfect union of ultra rational agents, just because they have a lot of employees and money. See: Windows 8, Windows Phone.
- tmoertel 11mo agoIf anyone at YouTube Trust & Safety is reading this article, I've got a real problem for you to solve. There are channels that exist solely to pump out AI slop seemingly designed to trick gullible seniors into identifying themselves in the comments. I suspect the scammers will go after these people later in pig-butchering or related scams. For example, the “Senior Secrets” channel pumps out videos such as “Over 60? Add THIS Powder To Your Coffee To Walk like You’re 40 Again! | Senior Health Tips.” (I won’t link to the video, but you can easily find it with a search.) The video makes bold health claims justified by citing what appear to be scholarly research studies, such as: > University of California, San Francisco (2023). "Mobility Enhancement Through Nutritional Supplementation in Older Adults." Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, Volume 78, pp. 445-453. However, none of the cited studies and papers are real. The deeply concerning thing is that the video’s narrator invites the seniors who are duped by these claims to identify themselves and reveal their age and locations in the comments. From the transcript at 1m44s: > "Before we begin, tell us in the comments now your age and where you're watching us from. We're reading and replying to every single comment, so drop your comments below." I’ve already reported this content to YT, but I’ve seen no apparent follow-up. Disclaimer: I used to work at Google, but not in anything YouTube related. If you’re in YT and want to reach out, my contact info is in my HN profile.
- jagged-chisel 11mo agoI’m curious to hear whether any YouTubians[O] take you up on that. 0 - idk. Can’t call employees “YouTubers”
- chipsrafferty 11mo agoThey don't care. There's a ridiculous amount of AI slop on YouTube.
- tmoertel 11mo agoThis isn't merely AI slop. This is AI slop that appears to have been designed to specifically target a vulnerable audience for the purpose of later running financial scams against them. It ought to be in a different category altogether.
- isaacremuant 11mo agoThis is what the crowd shouting misinformation and "protect X" asks for all the time. You want nanny states and nanny corps and authoritianism through and through (remember covid policies?), you'll get this more and more. You either start rolling back all that BS in the name of freedom (no, not freedumbs) or you can't really complain.
- geor9e 11mo ago"Risk of Physical Harm" is the kind of reason Tony Soprano would say
- WarOnPrivacy 11mo agoMount a Windows 11 ISO. Open an administrative command window. Navigate to the new drive letter. Enter this command: .\setup.exe /product server /auto upgrade /EULA accept /migratedrivers all /ShowOOBE none /Compat IgnoreWarning /Telemetry Disable I've used this to upgrade 10 to 11 on non approved hardware, going back to at least 2nd gen Intel CPUs. I've used it to upgrade existing Pro, EDU and IOT that didn't want to upgrade. The install window will say server but it isn't.
- EvanAnderson 11mo agoDoes this work with 25H2? I haven't tried it yet.
- WarOnPrivacy 11mo agoYes. I've done Win10 to Win11 with a 25H2 ISO. I've also used it to push 24H2 to 25H2 when WU wasn't offering the upgrade.
- EvanAnderson 11mo agoThanks. Good to know it still works. I've got a few unsupported machines I need (ugh, not want) to do.
- lax4ever 11mo agoSchneegans.de autounattend XML files generator
- fukka42 11mo agoCrazy how windows 11 objectively works fine on pretty much all hardware you'd expect but Microsoft is insisting it doesn't and we need to upgrade
- yard2010 11mo agoThey are lying to make money. It's a common tactic.
- roody15 11mo agoWindows 11 attempts to remove local only account is the last straw. I have mostly moved away from Windows already but if they fully implement this will never recommend to anyone period. I manage 2600 computers where I work and am down to less than 150 running windows … could see this reaching 0 in just a year or two.
- dev_l1x_be 11mo agoRisk of Physical Harm of losing profit.
- vismit2000 11mo agoIt wasn't wrong, there is no bigger harm one can do to self than using Windows!
- suzzer99 11mo agoThis happened to me when Amazon KDP's fraud prevention AI hallucinated that my Kindle version was plagiarizing my paperback (yes, it's the same book). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992654 Unfortunately, I'm not sure a human ever really looked at my case, or was strongly disincentivized to go against the AI. I got nothing but bland, contentless denials of my appeals that got vaguer each time. And I was never able to go viral, so I'm banned from KDP for life for complete nonsense.
- zahlman 11mo agoI think this is the same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503 ?
- ddingus 11mo agoBullshit, horseshit, cows hot. The whole win 11 thing is embarrassing. They are this far in, pushing features nobody asked for and is there any wonder the numbers blow chunks? None.
- dietr1ch 11mo ago"to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"
- godsmokescrack 11mo agoGovernments (we the people in general) have the right and duty to regulate corporations, non-human entities which exist at our regulatory pleasure. The US and the EU could easily rip Google/MS/Apple to pieces if they wanted to. Hit some other media conglomerates while they're at it. Vote or something.
- gmerc 11mo agoCachyOS.
- mkbkn 11mo agoThanks Google and Microsoft, I am going to write a blogpost on how to bypass Microsoft's shits and archive the page as well.
- cpncrunch 11mo agohttps://archive.ph/K0tKm https://archive.ph/K0tKm
- antegamisou 11mo ago> Risk of Physical Harm Yet ChatGPT is not responsible for having led to suicides.
- tom89999 11mo agoAs if people would not talk to each other or post such instructions elsewhere.... What a clumsy attempt to censor that. As if we now would love Microsoft for their shit and crap they produce since centuries. I only got a gaming machine running it here, all my private data will stay on another linux machine
- afarviral 11mo agoHuh I must have just got in on time as I set up a local account about 12 hours ago following a tutorial.
- ibbtown 11mo agoBut there is a harm. Just had to repair a pc of my family, because you are able to install windows 11 on a MBR Partition without EFI Boot. Has to convert it and fix some stuff, but it still starts only every second boot (srsly)
- blitzar 11mo ago> Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' Elaborate please YouTube.
- spl757 11mo agoOBAY
- sylware 11mo agoAnd how you would install a dual boot with some mainstream elf/linux distro? Is dual boot still a thing with all the effort from microsoft to make that hell or impossible?
- npteljes 11mo agoIt absolutely is a thing, at least, I'm a happy dual-booter for 10+ years now. Microsoft doesn't, at all, make that hell. They don't give a fuck, which is a different thing - that means that in some cases, they bork the other system on your computer. Other than those few cases, it's all dandy. It might help that I'm using Windows LTSC, and that I have installed Linux and Windows to separate SSDs (with the Linux SSD not being present when the Linux was installed). But it might be just unnecessary as well. Installation is not complicated at all, but I'd install Windows first, because it can be a finicky PoS, Linux is much better at respecting the user's wishes. Installation can be done to the same drive. With the Windows already installed, you can resize the last, largest partition, and install Linux to the newly created free space. The UEFI then can boot either Windows directly, by selecting that in the UEFI boot menu, or boot Grub, which can then boot Windows or Linux. With most Linux install media, you can also manage the drives, like create partitions, repair boot, delete or create EFI boot entries, etc.
- sylware 11mo agoUEFI secure boot is not getting in the way? Namely is secure boot can be still enabled even though the system is dual booting? I know that some windows game anti-cheat will now deny some games to run if secure boot is not enabled. And last but not least: I build my own distro, can I use my own crypto keys with UEFI secure boot hardware? That not blocking windoz secure booting (I guess crypto keys for windoz are generated and installed in the UEFI hardware upon... installation). I never actually have a look at that in the details.
- npteljes 11mo agoSecure Boot doesn't get in the way, I think. I had it disabled for some reason, but I enabled it to test it for you, and my Debian Linux boots just fine. I have no idea about the crypto key situation unfortunately.
- phreack 11mo agoIt's like they want people to bypass Windows 11 altogether. I've finally bit the bullet and gone to Linux recently. Certainly dying by 512 cuts and counting, not for the faint of heart, but I'm surprised at how much of my daily usage I've been able to replicate. I'd say 80% of life works, unlike previous attempts.
- wohoef 11mo agoIn my experience 120% of my daily usage from windows works on Linux. Where are the friction points for you?
- gond 11mo agoI cannot recommend NTLite enough. If it has to be Windows, just remove all the shit of Win11 yourself, set it to unattended installation with a local account, remove the hardware requirements barrier while you are at it, remove the games, controller add-ons, virus scanner and whatever else you would like to (the windows store?) and create your own LTSC. This isn’t a solution to the problem and missing the point of the whole argument. But if it has to be Windows, I would recommend to try it. 1] ntlite.com
- Anduia 11mo ago> YouTube eventually restored both videos Okay, nothing to see here then. Just some sensationalism around a content moderation mistake.
- SurceBeats 11mo agoGoogle used to proudly say "Don't be evil"... But they just forgot to add "let us take that part". When tech giants start deciding what technical knowledge is too "dangerous" for users to access, we've crossed into a different kind of territory. Installing an OS on your own hardware is now physical harm? That's some creative interpretation of their policies. The irony is that this kind of censorship just validates why people want to bypass these systems in the first place, nobody wants corporations deciding what they can and can't do with their own machines.
- Pooge 11mo agoThose of you who don't use Linux as a daily driver: why? What do you need in Windows that is not possible in Linux? Its slowness to justify your 40-hour work week?
- reddozen 11mo agothe games I play don't support Linux
- Pooge 11mo agoIsn't dual-booting convenient for you? I've never done it myself.
- rkomorn 11mo agoI like Linux, it's my laptop daily driver, but there's nothing I would do on Linux on my gaming PC that I can't do on Windows. Linux just has no upside over Windows in a dual boot context.
- Pooge 11mo ago> Linux just has no upside over Windows in a dual boot context If you do dual-boot and don't care about the privacy of the data you put into Windows, I guess so.
- rkomorn 11mo agoIf I dual-boot, I have to maintain both OSes no matter what. I also personally keep no data on my devices, but if I did, having data that I need to reboot to get to would be friction I don't want.
- Pooge 11mo ago> I also personally keep no data on my devices Now I get your point. But still I would prefer to access my "personal" accounts from a device I trust. Do you use a cloud service for your files?
- 1970-01-01 11mo agoFunny, because all the LLMs are more than happy to spit out the steps. Alphabet, if you want to get ahead, you need to be sure you're consistent. It's literally 4 clicks to get the same info from your sister product.
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- john_alan 11mo agoAnyone still using Windows for anything but gaming is an idiot.
- juangacovas 11mo agoAnd you know it because you're forced to use windows somewhere?
- john_alan 11mo agoyes, and I grew up with 1.0/3.1
- npteljes 11mo agoOr, they are opting for convenience. Why bother with the OS, when it does the job, and there is a myriad other aspects of a person's life?
- john_alan 11mo agocause I use it 12 hours a day?
- npteljes 11mo agoYes, I worded that too personal. Of course if you use it so much, consciously, you care about it. I'm in the same boat, and I use Linux for the same reason. What I really wanted to say: "Most people don't bother with the OS, when it does its job, because there is a myriad other aspects of their life." And I do stand by this. Not because I like it, but because it's my experience with people. They don't rock the boat if not necessary, and frankly, I'm the same, just in different domains. And so, these people are far from idiots. They just care about different things.
- john_alan 11mo agothat's fair ya
- president_zippy 11mo agoWe really need some antitrust enforcement right about now. When second and fourth largest companies by market cap find it in their financial best interest to collaborate with each other, we have a problem. In healthy markets, two companies that harvest and sell data as a major source of revenue would want to pull an Auric Goldfinger and disrupt one another's data collection practices to decrease the supply and increase the price of ad-relevant data.
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- blacklight 11mo agoI don't get it. If you hate Windows just use Linux, BSD or whatever. I'm sick of all the "Windows 11 sucks" folks that yet keep using Windows. Just boot your laptop from a Linux ISO and you've got the best way to bypass Windows 11. Boycott Microsoft and everything it touches.
- KETpXDDzR 11mo agoEverytime I read such news, I'm glad that I ditched Windows for Linux. Since Proton makes almost all games run, I don't have any reason to use Microsoft's rotten software anymore.