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Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by sbuk »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #205
sbuk wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Single button mouse"... You did exactly this. Edit: changed to the relevant statement

People really latched on to that "single button mouse" thing, completely ignoring the other 2 reasons I listed that I don't like MacOS. Not to mention that I wasn't telling people they should use Windows or criticising their reasoning for using MacOS.

To be fair to you, there is not a lot that can be done about the other two things that you don't like. Everyone knows that gaming on the Mac is limited, as is hardware choice. The reason that most people latch on the mouse comment is because it hasn't been true since the last century in all reality.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by kragen »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #25

Just another way in which the cure (anti-malware software) is worse than the disease (the malware). Slows down every file access and program launch, high false positive rate, is itself a vector for exploitation... why did we ever think this was a good idea?

I imagine that what happened was that, if the same muggles came back to you every week to uninstall the same malware from their computers, you'd get pretty tired of it after a few months and install some kind of malware blocker. It's not a solution to the problem, but it's a painkiller.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

fsflover wrote: post #244
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the whole point of what I'm saying is that I personally use Windows for my own personal reasons. Why is it my job to provide a platform for some Linux Desktop evangelist to promote their favorite OS by arguing against my reasoning?

HN is not the place for dry posts like "I love Windows/Linux". Nobody cares that you run Windows for "your personal" reasons. People are actually interested in the reasons.

This all started because someone posted "[...] there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft.", a point I sought to refute. That's it.

I would say it is at least as good as this post:

"You actually can directly listen to many scientists on social media."

Literally everything that followed was people being upset I didn't give them reasoning to attack. Well you know what? I'm sick of their bullshit arguments designed to promote their favorite OS by telling me all my personal decisions are bad just because I don't like the same things they do.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by adrian_b »

naosouumapessoa wrote: post #130
sslayer wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ditched in the middle of Windows 7, with absolutely no regrets. Valve has made tremendous inroads in gaming with Proton, along with developers releasing for Linux, there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft.

> there really isn’t a good excuse to stay with Microsoft Except, if you run nvidia optimus laptop and have mixed display DPI. Every few months I try to run Arch on my recent laptop and it’s always a nightmare. I was hyped that 470 driver would fix wayland in nvidia (the only half decent way to fix mixed DPIs on Linux). Lo and behold, It’s still a buggy mess that made me crawl back to windows. Maybe on 570 I will be…

In recent years I have used only laptops with non-Optimus NVIDIA, and on these I had no problems in Linux with multiple monitors with different resolutions, even if I do not use Wayland.

The NVIDIA settings program allows you to configure the monitors at any resolutions and in any geometric arrangement.

Some 6-7 years ago, I had a laptop with Optimus NVIDIA and I lost a couple of days until making it work. After that I had no problems, but the external monitor had the same resolution with the laptop display, so I have never tried mixed DPI with Optimus.

In any case, after that I have avoided Optimus and there are enough alternatives.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by mikewhy »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #41
kozak wrote: post #28

I recently unpacked an old archive from the time I was making some shareware few decades ago. Windows Defender instantly ate all keygen.exe files from it. Those keygens were my own keygens for my own software (I wrote them myself and used them to generate keys for my customers back in the day).

Yes that's why you have to unzip them on a Mac or Linux PC first. It does the same for Windows Loader by Daz and similar activation cracks for Windows 7/10.

Another option is using a folder you've added to defenders exclude list: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion...

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

sbuk wrote: post #251
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People really latched on to that "single button mouse" thing, completely ignoring the other 2 reasons I listed that I don't like MacOS. Not to mention that I wasn't telling people they should use Windows or criticising their reasoning for using MacOS.

To be fair to you, there is not a lot that can be done about the other two things that you don't like. Everyone knows that gaming on the Mac is limited, as is hardware choice. The reason that most people latch on the mouse comment is because it hasn't been true since the last century in all reality.

Which I'll accept is a problem of my last real attempt to use a Mac being well over a decade ago. I guess I just don't get why people keep harping on it, like correcting me on MacOS's 2-button mouse support is going to convert me or something.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by MomoXenosaga »

smt88 wrote: post #157
zabatuvajdka wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting ideas here: how antivirus becomes a form of censorship. Maybe that’s an extreme view but it feels like now that Microsoft supplies it’s own defender app. And like all forms of martial law beginning as a way to protect citizens! I also noticed that with win10 when apps crash it sends the data to Microsoft—as though they can fix 3rd party apps for us. Yeesh. I think I’ll skip out on Windows 11 TYVM.

This is incredibly hyperbolic. If you don't like Defender's default behavior (which is sane for the 99.999% of users who are not devs), turn it off or use a different OS.

I really hate windows defender. It's as aggressive as Apple and a constant struggle to shut up.

But on the bright side install any other AV (including free malwarebytes) and it will switch off.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by fsflover »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #254
fsflover wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is not the place for dry posts like "I love Windows/Linux". Nobody cares that you run Windows for "your personal" reasons. People are actually interested in the reasons.

This all started because someone posted "[...] there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft.", a point I sought to refute. That's it. I would say it is at least as good as this post: "You actually can directly listen to many scientists on social media." Literally everything that followed was people being upset I didn't give them reasoning to attack. Well you know what? I'm sick of their bullshit arguments…

"I love Windows" does not refute anything. It's just tribalism.

"there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft" implies that Microsoft is bad, and on HN it's more or less accepted (mostly due to the user tracking and non-flexibility). Of course, there are still reasons to stay with Microsoft, so that argument is far from perfect too.

> I would say it is at least as good as this post: "You actually can directly listen to many scientists on social media."

My post suggests how to find the opinions of actual scientists. It's an actionable suggestion with reasoning unlike yours.

> by telling me all my personal decisions are bad

Nobody tells you that your personal decisions are bad. People are just discussing the reasons to choose one system of the other. Bystanders read that and decide for themselves. "I love Windows" arguments do not help anyone to decide.

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