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Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by bodge5000 »

norman784 wrote: post #27

I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…

> macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if you are worried about your data being collected

Sorry to go off topic, but can anyone expand on this? I don't use MacOS but have been thinking about it, I always thought they were a significant improvement over windows (even if not quite as good as linux)

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by bodge5000 »

zambal wrote: post #203
Akepa wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitwig is the best Linux DAW in my experience, although it isn't FOSS. Running third party VSTs is also much more of a pain if even possible. I'm also stuck with Logic... for now at least.

It guess it depends a lot on personal preferences and expectations, but I'm very content with my Bitwig setup on Linux. There are obviously a lot less native third party VST plugins available on Linux, so if you already own lots of them and want to make a switch that could be a problem, but if you're just starting out, there's more than enough available: https://www.kvraudio.com/plugins/linux/vst-plugins

yeh plugins ended up being a big thing for me, but in the end I decided I'd rather be free to use whatever OS I want to use rather than keep valhalla shimmer.

Can be a bit of a pain migrating from windows though if you have loads of previous projects, all expecting to find a specific vst in a specific place. Thats why I'm dual booting windows for now.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by heresie-dabord »

dijit wrote: post #18
mobilio wrote: post #2

I wish to see this also for macOS, iOS and Android.

Aside from fsflovers link; there's a fantastic (paid) firewall software called littlesnitch. You can use it to watch every process send network traffic, you can even collect samples of the traffic and plot it on a map: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html (not affiliated, just a happy customer; it's one of the few things I like the mac ecosystem for.. there's attempts to port it to linux with https:/…

Friend, your link ends with a semi-colon.

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by neoberg »

pmoriarty wrote: post #205
neoberg wrote: post #145

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> When was the last time you used Linux Yesterday and it was terrible. > Never have I faced any issue that can't easily be solved. (If at all there were issues) Good luck viewing hdr content.

What was so terrible about it?

Off the top of my mind; mouse & trackpad, sound stack, bluetooth stack, hd/4k content streaming, no hdr at all, using multiple displays with different dpis... I tried every recommended driver&setting for mouse&trackpad. They are all terrible compared to Macos. The whole story of using multiple displays with xrandr, xinerama etc. is a joke. Agreed; you get a better experience with Wayland regarding that but then you lose the ability to do screenshare for the most part (without doing hacky stuff instead of doing work).

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by neoberg »

dtx1 wrote: post #210
neoberg wrote: post #129

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There is always a way. But convenience is also important and time is valuable. So instead of just clicking on a title on Netflix, we should instal & maintain a server and search for content on torrents?

There are fully integrated solutions for kodi. Sure there's some setup but the alternative is paying a lot more for low res content on linux.

Yeah that and many more convenience reasons are why people like me don't prefer to use linux on desktop. Also even if you have your setup, not being able to view hdr content at all on linux is a big turn off for me personally.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by neoberg »

deno wrote: post #186
neoberg wrote: post #116

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It looks very bad tbh. This is how my comment looks on Mac for comparison. Uploading to imgur to test if there is compression in play here. https://i.imgur.com/hSirmx6.png

You're either using 200% scaling or browser zoom because I had to scale your image by 50% on a 4K display for it to look 100% sized. This is apples-oranges. And if you're looking at those other screenshots on a 4K display then you need to also zoom to 50% and get your eyes close the the display, otherwise you're just seeing the results of an image scaling algorithm, which will indeed look terrible. Here is Fedora/KDE…

no I'm not using any zoom or extra scaling. It's the native scaling of mbp retina display. Screenshot is ~2 times bigger than what I actually see.

edit: your second screenshot looks very sharp and nice on my display.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by gwbas1c »

ubermonkey wrote: post #224
gwbas1c wrote: post #188

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> what holds you back to switch to Linux? I occasionally need to do some development work in a Debian VM. I can't even remember the name of the window manager it came with; but I just can't figure it out. The equivalent of the dock / taskbar just isn't useful. I had to jump through hoops and hoops just to get Visual Studio Code to work, in part because it took awhile to figure out how to have root access to my own VM…

"It's just too much work for me to figure out how to use Linux" This is the crux, really. I'm adept at server administration, and have used Linux there for decades, but on the desktop it is, from my POV, pretty much a dumpster fire of bad usability. Had Apple not gone to OS X 20 years ago, I suspect desktop Linux would be materially further along, but with a well-designed and well-supported commercial *nix OS in the…

(Joke) Unless you're North Korean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

Jokes aside:

> Had Apple not gone to OS X 20 years ago, I suspect desktop Linux would be materially further along, but with a well-designed and well-supported commercial *nix OS in the market that ships married to bespoke hardware, there's materially less motivation to make desktop Linux better for people who won't want to have to tinker to make things work.

Aren't Android and ChromeOS linux-based?

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by deno »

neoberg wrote: post #237
deno wrote: post #186

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You're either using 200% scaling or browser zoom because I had to scale your image by 50% on a 4K display for it to look 100% sized. This is apples-oranges. And if you're looking at those other screenshots on a 4K display then you need to also zoom to 50% and get your eyes close the the display, otherwise you're just seeing the results of an image scaling algorithm, which will indeed look terrible. Here is Fedora/KDE…

no I'm not using any zoom or extra scaling. It's the native scaling of mbp retina display. Screenshot is ~2 times bigger than what I actually see. edit: your second screenshot looks very sharp and nice on my display.

Retina display is at least 200% or more scaling, right? You're comparing hires text rendering to lowres. Screenshot is 2x bigger because browser doesn't know about pixel density and scales it 2x by default. It does the same to those low res screenshots so they look normal sized on 4K but they're blurry because they're being image scaled.

See: https://johankj.github.io/devicePixelRatio/

If you see more than 1 at 100% zoom you have resolution scaling. Try browser zooming to 50% or 200%.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by GraemeMeyer »

feintruled wrote: post #227
jpalomaki wrote: post #194

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Based on my experience, I blame the 3rd party stuff. All kinds of software and devices just love to add background processes to the system. I guess this is the price you pay for system where everything is possible.

I'm sure it doesn't help, but even with all that stuff disabled it's bad. svchost.exe's mysterious machinations, windows updates, superfetch (or whatever they call it now), one drive syncing, malware checking, app updates, it's like 'everything everywhere all at once' for Windows. You can make a case for all those things, of course. Just why does it have to launch into them all immediately upon startup? On a beefier…

Recent versions of Win10 still perform quite well on old hardware for me - could be that you just need a clean install?
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