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Generally, I don't think Windows 10's telemetry features are privacy-violating. Most of the telemetry (especially if you choose the "required only" option in setup) is just for crashes and basic usage data (they won't use it for advertising for example, like Google or Facebook); that said, I use pi-hole as my DNS which blocks a lot of the Microsoft URLs used by telemetry. However, my biggest issue is simply bloat. Wi…
> This Windows 10 Setup Script turns off a bunch of unnecessary Windows 10 telemetery, bloatware, & privacy things Aren't people tired of fighting with their own computers? I abandoned Windows, installed Linux and can't be happier now.
Computers are chosen based on applications. If you want to play games, you are probably buying a Windows PC. Developing iOS apps? You want a Mac. If you just need a browser, then a Chrome Book or iPad is probably a good choice. I'd bet a lot of people here use three or more operating systems every day on different computers doing different things.
Nearly all of these "clean up" scripts are a horrendous idea to run on your machine, I see right at the top that this script disables SmartScreen, a service that absolutely should not be disabled unless you want your machine to get owned. It then proceeds to set your current network as Private (aka "open all the ports") regardless of which network you're connected to - hope you're at home! Other changes are completel…
Your comment is absolute nonsense. You can't say anything like that without context. SmartScreen and defender are the first things to go on my machine as they slow down computer at least by the factor of 2, if not more. People on HN generally don't need babysitting!. Know where you are.
I started using Windows in the 3.x days, and the amount of crap I have to "fix" every time I make a new install increases with each successive version... and to think I used to be mildly annoyed at having to enable file extensions and showing full paths back in the 9x/2k days.
To be fair, you sometimes had to open the machines and fiddle with irq's and other things I already forgot about. I remember one machine, where I couldn't get sound blaster mouse, printer and modem to work at the same time. I do agree that nowadays software companies expect to just own you if you use their products. The sad part is that what Microsoft is doing is "normal" or even minimal compared to what Apple or Goo…
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Your comment is absolute nonsense. You can't say anything like that without context. SmartScreen and defender are the first things to go on my machine as they slow down computer at least by the factor of 2, if not more. People on HN generally don't need babysitting!. Know where you are.
You complain about nonsense and than go forward and spread some on your own. You saying that SmartScreen and Defender slows down a Windows machine by a factor of 2 just makes you a nonsense clown.
Nearly all of these "clean up" scripts are a horrendous idea to run on your machine, I see right at the top that this script disables SmartScreen, a service that absolutely should not be disabled unless you want your machine to get owned. It then proceeds to set your current network as Private (aka "open all the ports") regardless of which network you're connected to - hope you're at home! Other changes are completel…
(Not so) fun stuff about the Linux services shovelling. Having the snapd daemon running is not necessary (it may actually be undesirable). At least on Ubuntu though, snapd can't be regularly prevented from starting at boot (`systemctl disable`) - it needs to be masked (`systemctl`, essentially, a forced disable). But if one masks it, the Ubuntu daily update will hang. Well, one can't say that Ubuntu isn't catching up…
For people like us, there are so many other distributions that align more with our use cases. Manjaro or Fedora are just as good as Ubuntu, but for potentially more savvy users. Or if you really really need complete control nobody is stopping anybody from running Gentoo with OpenRC. Or, the most sensible option, just use Debian.
The whole point is to give the user choices, that's the entire purpose of the Gnu/Linux universe.
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This class of user has always been doing such silly things long before "monetization". There were plenty of guides for Windows XP and Vista claiming to "increase performance" by disabling things like the indexer (fun fact, that will TANK your performance in a variety of areas), the Cryptographic services, and more. They never had any trust to violate, only a strange (and completely incorrect) sense that they knew mor…
In Vista RTM and sp1 turning off indexer was a great solution. It was monster on the drive and memory (5-10 min startups on computers that should be up in 30-60 seconds and were after you turned things like that off). They fixed it in sp2. Superfetch was just as bad as well as the windows defender. Most of that was fixed in win7. I now let all 3 of those services run. The issues were fixed... The problem is these 'so…
If you have access to it, through partner or MSDN or corporate licensing or otherwise, it is really worth installing the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB/LTSC versions. It has most of the annoying things that plague consumer versions of Windows 10 stripped out, and it gets a very different cadence of updates, restricted to security and quality fixes. No Cortana, no Edge installed by default, no built-in Store universal app…
> no Edge installed by default Are you sure this is a good thing? As much as I don't like Edge, aren't the alternatives either IE or no browser? It's not like they'll ship Firefox preinstalled instead.