Year of the Linux Desktop hopefully coming soon
The beach head is already there, steam deck. All it takes is one gaming generation growing up with freedom..
Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
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Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#12Year of the Linux Desktop hopefully coming soon
That was 2013.
Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#13Due to Windows 11 uploading all of my documents to their cloud without informed consent , for a second time, I'm heading to Linux.
The trick to that one is to never create or use a Microsoft account. They make it very hard to create a local Windows user account that exists only on your machine, and they tempt you into migrating your local account to a cloud based account, but it's very straightforward to never supply the email and password for a Microsoft account.
Uninstalling OneDrive every time they re-install it is annoying but also pretty simple.
Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#14I am running Windows 11 Arm in MacOS Parallels as it's the only option (Microsoft Pulled the 10 Arm Builds). I decided to not even let this Windows 11 VM connect to the internet (But has access to my MacOS partition to for file access). It's a shame because windows got so many things right but it's starting to taste bad. We used to write software to have windows control some pretty cool stuff like automation, securit…
I do the same, but unfortunately need internet access on win 11 (for the same reason I need windows at all, a historic thin client upon which a large corporation I work for uses)… I could just run a cloud vm with windows 7 for the same purpose, but it breaks email and document “printing” pdf - or at least makes it super inconvenient.
Anyway - today the damn weather showed up on my win 11 taskbar to the extreme left. Click on it and a huge panel of crap opens. No obvious way to turn of these weather alerts. Even the start button sucks , full of crap. Pretty sure it made a Microsoft account automatically too through the parallels installer using my Mac credentials (ugh!)
Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#15Almost as if shoving ads in everyone’s faces backfired and they all want out.
Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#16Windows 10, eh?
I refuse to use anything past Windows 7. (When I have to use Windows, that is.)
Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#17Year of the Linux Desktop hopefully coming soon
That was 2001.
Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#18Due to Windows 11 uploading all of my documents to their cloud without informed consent , for a second time, I'm heading to Linux.
The trick to that one is to never create or use a Microsoft account. They make it very hard to create a local Windows user account that exists only on your machine, and they tempt you into migrating your local account to a cloud based account, but it's very straightforward to never supply the email and password for a Microsoft account. Uninstalling OneDrive every time they re-install it is annoying but also pretty si…
How do you know they don't upload your docs anyways?
Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#19Year of the Linux Desktop hopefully coming soon
That was 2007.
Re: Windows 10 share increases while Windows 11 share decreases
#20Year of the Linux Desktop hopefully coming soon
The beach head is already there, steam deck. All it takes is one gaming generation growing up with freedom..
Are most Steam Deck users even aware that there's a Linux and some userland under the hood, or is it just a portable game console to them (as an Android phone is just another pocket computer)?