Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

Post by VRay » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 10:16 PM UTC

Nerdfest wrote: post #147

wink wrote: post #108

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Please don't act as if Linux was a viable alternative for everything. It's not. I appreciate trying to prod people, but this came off very elitist. -- someone who's been using Linux since 1998, Linux desktops for work stuff since ~2008 and has more machines with only Linux at home than ones with Windows, but still spends the majority of recreation time on a Win7 box because not all games run nicely with Wine, or at a…

While not a 'normal' user as such, I've used only Linux at home and at work (Win VM at work occasionally for rare corporate stuff). I develop software, control my guitar amp and audio equipment, play video games, do photo processing, watch videos .... No, it's not a viable alternative for everything , it's damn close. Valve is doing some incorporation of Wine into Steam that should make many "Windows-only" games play…

Post by wink » Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 11:00 PM UTC

VRay wrote: post #151

Nerdfest wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While not a 'normal' user as such, I've used only Linux at home and at work (Win VM at work occasionally for rare corporate stuff). I develop software, control my guitar amp and audio equipment, play video games, do photo processing, watch videos .... No, it's not a viable alternative for everything , it's damn close. Valve is doing some incorporation of Wine into Steam that should make many "Windows-only" games play…

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that anyone surfing HackerNews for fun can easily get their favorite games working in wine, so I'm not sure who that guy is warning off