just me or is this a completely different article?
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Windows Recall: Microsoft has lost trust with its users
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#12I'm sure most normal, non-hn crowd users will not care. They have facebook or tiktok, etc installed on their phone and use it daily.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux Mint. Already there. :-)
Any applications or things from Windows you miss?
I’m not the person you posed this question to, but I’d recommend the general strategy of making a list of features and functionalities that you personally need and want. By making your decisions against such a list, you are less at the whims of trends because unless your needs change, your tool doesn’t need to. The key is to be honest about what you really need. Applies to all of life, really.
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#14Aside windowscentral and one wired article, I don't think anybody really cares.
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#15If you're a Windows user, are you planning to move to another OS? IF so, which one?
I used Windows to develop daily from 2015 or so to 2022 because it just worked. I switched to Linux because I just got tired of all the management I had to do to get the OS out of my way, and also the "just worked" part was starting to become less true.
Desktop Linux sucks, but at least it's not pulling the crap MS pulls. I like Linux Mint. I also use PopOS and am moving away from it to LM with XFCE on all my machines.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux Mint. Already there. :-)
Any applications or things from Windows you miss?
Plug for FreeOffice, a file-compatible MS Office clone for Mac and Linux! (That said, MS Office is cloudified now, afaik, so you might be able to continue using it on the web.)
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#17If you're a Windows user, are you planning to move to another OS? IF so, which one?
I've only used Windows exclusively for gaming for going on 8 years, the rest of my computing is on Fedora Linux.
Do recommend.
I'll love to see the day when I can ditch it for gaming too, but most games I play are multiplayer, and anti-cheats generally don't like Linux
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#18If you're a Windows user, are you planning to move to another OS? IF so, which one?
I’m a ex-Mac user who switched to Windows a few years ago due to Apple’s soldered RAM and storage. I am considering making a switch to FreeBSD for my Framework laptop (contingent on driver support; otherwise I’d use Linux) and my daily-driver Ryzen 9 desktop. Linux would be fine for me, but I have a preference for FreeBSD.
I admit that I will miss Microsoft Office (I currently have an Office 365 subscription), but after reading about the latest changes made to Photoshop’s TOS, I’m not confident about the future of other SaSS providers, and I’d like to transition to FOSS tools that respect my privacy, even if these tools aren’t as feature-rich as their proprietary counterparts. Plus, in the case I need Microsoft Office or other proprietary tools, I have an old 2013 Mac Pro that I could boot up, and I have a perpetual license for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.
I’m increasingly concerned about the future of personal computing. It seems that there is a trend toward increasingly locked-down devices that serve the vendor rather than the user.
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#19Aside windowscentral and one wired article, I don't think anybody really cares.
It's not so much that nobody cares, it's mostly that nobody has real agency over their os. Replacing it with linux still involves a lot of steps that make it impossible at scale
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#20If you're a Windows user, are you planning to move to another OS? IF so, which one?
I'll probably move to Debian.