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I don't consider win10 telemetry that bad. You can dial it down a lot until it's just sending crash data when thing go bad. Pretty much all OSes have this. What I really don't like however is Microsoft pushing garbage like candy crush to my machine without my consent.
My linux install does not have "telemetry" (which is really just a polite word for what people used to call "spyware").
Rather than continuing to struggle against these features which will continue to be added, why not use an operating system that respects your freedom?
EDIT: ps. I know Linux has great, more or less equivalent, free or very cheap software available but I'm too lazy to learn that other software.
EDIT2: I think perhaps a lot of windows users might fall into my category.
I don't consider win10 telemetry that bad. You can dial it down a lot until it's just sending crash data when thing go bad. Pretty much all OSes have this. What I really don't like however is Microsoft pushing garbage like candy crush to my machine without my consent.
My linux install does not have "telemetry" (which is really just a polite word for what people used to call "spyware").
Before moving definitively to Linux I'm considering installing a proxy on my router, bloc all ports except one and just redirect Firefox and a few apps that need connectivity to this port.
I'm not a network guy though, might be complicated.
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Is this open-source?
No that's the only caveat. I much prefer to use scripts, as these programs are a bit of a black box. But at least they're digitally signed and recommended by the wider Windows 'powertoy' community so you're allowed to trust them.
Rather than continuing to struggle against these features which will continue to be added, why not use an operating system that respects your freedom?
I'm not the kind of guy who would found a Free Software Foundation because of some Xerox printer drivers.
I had been a long time Windows user, at home (W10) and work(7/Server/Datacenter). Windows had been getting just more and more intrusive like a malware since the last couple years. I hope they do something to stop that. I have recently moved to Fedora and it is just awesome. Pretty much everything works like amazing. Its not a complete replacement if you are gaming, nvidia drivers are a bit painful to install but ever…
"Everything just works" so long as your expectations around "everything" are essentially set by a desktop computer experience designed in 2005. Linux on desktops is fine (except from a physical security standpoint), but primitive in terms of UX. And it's still dependent on Mozilla or Google for its browsing experience. And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of p…
Apart from the above points that you mentioned its definitely not getting you the out-fo-box working functionality that windows gives. But i think i am willing to suffer that much to have a system with more control and an OS which doesn't installs random apps without my permission like Windows 10 does[1].
[1] http://winaero.com/blog/fix-windows-10-installs-apps-like-ca...
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My linux install does not have "telemetry" (which is really just a polite word for what people used to call "spyware").
Spyware and telemetry are not the same. Do you really think they are exactly the same?
I don't consider win10 telemetry that bad. You can dial it down a lot until it's just sending crash data when thing go bad. Pretty much all OSes have this. What I really don't like however is Microsoft pushing garbage like candy crush to my machine without my consent.
And if you use a web app, e.g., Google Apps, they get all this data plus more (and completely not anonymized).