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Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by dottrap »

pjc50 wrote: post #144
fla wrote: post #134

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I've been working 4 years on Ubuntu Linux now and I'm very happy about it. My life is much easier and I don't loose time fighting with my system. I have a Win7 partition that I boot now and then when I must use software that can't be virtualized well enough. In 4 years I've never lost work and I had only two crashes after messing with my GPU settings. If only the biggest proprietary software we available on linux (Lo…

How is Steam on Linux (+Wine) these days?

SteamOS officially launches in November. It's starting to get pretty good. Don't know about Wine.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by jqm »

cletus wrote: post #77
x5n1 wrote: post #67

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Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust. Google started en…

Nothing about Linux on the desktop "works fine". It's horrible. UI seems to be one area that benefits--almost demands --a central planning authority. I'm reminded of Supported Features [1]. There is some great open source software out there. But I'm struggling to think of great open source software with a good UI. Not that I'm saying Windows is good mind you. My personal preference would be OSX, which you can view as…

"Nothing about Linux on the desktop "works fine". It's horrible."

Strongly disagree. I have no trouble getting around in KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE or i3. They are all just fine.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by JimmaDaRustla »

wcchandler wrote: post #131

Hey Chicken Little, how's the sky? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny

When I read the #1 comment here by someone I can't depict other than George Orwell himself, I started shouting "THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!"

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by kefka »

Crito wrote: post #65
datalist wrote: post #28

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Except for telemetry (and that you can turn off in the Enterprise edition as well) you can turn off all these features.

How many clicks and keypresses does it take to turn it all off?

1. F8 to boot from CD 2. Let DBAN do its job.

So, 1.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by outworlder »

sidmkp96 wrote: post #156
x5n1 wrote: post #67

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Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust. Google started en…

> that works just fine Are you kidding me? If you're a full-stack developer, then try opening Android Studio & PyCharm IDE at the same time, and after approx. 1 hour, things just get horrible. Everything is stuck. I don't know exactly what is happening, but somewhere the Swap handling horrible wrong. No such issues on Mac OS/Windows :/

This is not the general public experience. Sure, I've had similar issues before. Usually, I could trace the culprit to a specific motherboard chipset, or graphics card, not swap. Unless one of these apps is leaking memory.

On the other hand, I've had my fair share of windows weirdness. My work machine will from time to time not shutdown and I'll come the next day to a bluescreen. What does that say about windows? Nothing at all, it's likely a driver issue too.

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Post by xnzakg »

Amezarak wrote: post #97
msravi wrote: post #37

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The "password sharing" feature of Windows 10 is sufficient reason for me to never allow anyone with Windows 10 access to my network. Ever. That's the way I'll opt out. Not by changing my SSID.

Sharing your password via Wi-Fi Sense to your friend gives him access to the network, but no knowledge of your password and no ability to share it. Sharing your password via word-of-mouth gives your friend your password and access to your network and the ability to share it further.

You know, you can always ask your friend to let you enter the password on his computer yourself without telling them. It will be stored on their computer in both cases anyway.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by outworlder »

pmelendez wrote: post #173
x5n1 wrote: post #67

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Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust. Google started en…

> we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary I think you are being a bit biased on this one. There are a lot of applications that the "free" alternative is just not good enough in comparison with the propetary one. Just to name a few: Gimp and Photoshop Inkscape and Illustrator Maya/3DStudio and Blender I would even add Office and LibreOffice but the later is actually good enough for a good chu…

You are missing the point. "Proprietary system" here means Windows.

All these applications could run under Linux just fine if the vendors cared.

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Post by mbrutsch »

JimmaDaRustla wrote: post #166
mbrutsch wrote: post #124

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Are you using 10 on a daily basis? My primary work machine is begging me to update, but I keep seeing reports of slowdowns and lockups.

I use 10 at home, works perfect. Some people have issues with GPU driver support (old Nvidia card in my bro's case), and 100% cpu issue, also sounded like driver/software related. I wouldn't update on a work machine however - no need to put your time at risk.

Self-employed, so my "work" machine is mine. Might as well bite the bullet and get the upgrade done.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by makomk »

weland wrote: post #148
microtonal wrote: post #126

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No, it's not. Besides driver problems, missing support for newer OpenGL standards, fragmentation of desktop environments and a dozen of other problems, it doesn't even have GUI isolation (meaning that any X11 application can sniff your keyboard input): http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20040705.html http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2011/04/linux-security...

> Besides driver problems As long as you stay away from perpetually-beta distributions that I shall not name, driver problems are really a non-issue. I haven't had a malfunctioning peripheral under Linux in a very long time now (years?). Driver problems are on-par with what you see on Windows :-). > missing support for newer OpenGL standards This has been a common complaint about OS X for a long time, and no one thou…

I don't think it's even true that keyloggers are any harder to write on say Windows. The only thing they can't trivially get hold of is your password for the machine itself. (Of course, if you write a naive keylogger you're going to get caught by any AV software worth its salt.)
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