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Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by hodgehog11 »

poulpy123 wrote: post #160
deadbabe wrote: post #19

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Why not Linux?

For the same reason that I didn't replace my linux at home and at works by windows: because they have different strengths. Windows has for it: - the gazillion software, free or crazily expensive, that do not exist on linux - the hardware compatibility, whatever is built, it is with windows on mind - the office file formats that are the de facto standart - the software installation model that is very crap but infinite…

I use both Windows and Linux, and while I agree with your first three points for specific proprietary software depending on your job, the last two seem a bit odd. I thought these are often considered advantages of Linux?

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by dartharva »

freeone3000 wrote: post #89
shevis wrote: post #82

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Gaming. Linux gaming has come a long way (especially thanks to the steam deck) but the vast majority of games are still only released on Windows.

Right, but thanks to Proton that’s just not relevant? Blue Prince, Clair Obscure, Lost Records, The Alters, Doom: The Dark Ages, Oblivion Remastered, South of Midnight… all run just fine on Steam on linux.

They run "just fine" meaning their developers and publishers just tolerate the fact that someone out there may be running them on unsupported OS's, and that too only barely. Many will straight up lock their games out of Linux, let alone support them.

There are very few games that run "better" on Linux, and that too only on specific benchmarks and after a lot of tweaks and hacks. Nvidia is a lost cause, many devices, parts and peripherals don't bother providing Linux driver support, and HDR & VRR have either bog-standard implementations or are straight-up unsupported. There is no way any current nontrivial game runs better out-of-the-box on any Linux distro for a layman than on Windows on most retail "gaming" computers.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by Eggpants »

roetlich wrote: post #87
falcor84 wrote: post #59

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> The snapshots are stored and processed locally. Even if that's the design, it's a massive new attack surface for malware to try to exfiltrate.

Then don't turn it on?

This “feature” was made for corporate owned window machines, who will force it enabled via policies.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by dartharva »

delichon wrote: post #55
fidotron wrote: post #23

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> But privacy is a bug on a school laptop used by a child. What you're going to learn is how many people that think like this consider you to be in the same position as the child.

"The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.” ― Robert A. Heinlein The opposite is true too. Infants shouldn't be handed knives because grown men need to cut their steak.

If we were to seriously take that advice, children wouldn't have access to laptops in the first pace, let alone "school" ones.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

shevis wrote: post #82
jksflkjl3jk3 wrote: post #77

I can never understand how anyone with an interest in tech hasn't switched to Linux for their personal desktop/laptop at some point in the last 20+ years. Why would you want to use a closed source OS controlled by a corporation with a past as checkered as Microsoft's?

Gaming. Linux gaming has come a long way (especially thanks to the steam deck) but the vast majority of games are still only released on Windows.

That is certainly true, but they usually work fine on Linux thanks to Proton. I'm a big gamer and I've been primarily Linux (for gaming too) for something like 4 years now.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by dartharva »

delichon wrote: post #44
Etheryte wrote: post #36

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Your manager would say that privacy is a bug on a corporate laptop used by an employee. Luckily there are a number of countries where the legal framework doesn't let that fly.

If the law required allowing children to use their school owned laptops to browse the web without oversight or limitation, many schools could not provide them and students would lose a very valuable educational tool.

It would unironically be much better for everyone involved if they didn't use laptops in the first place and went back to pen and paper.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by dfedbeef »

LooseMarmoset wrote: post #3

Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place? And who is to say that Microsoft will honor the toggle, “for analytic and performance metric” purposes? EDIT: the rant above shouldn’t cast aspersions on Brave, good on them for trying.

Someone wanted a pitch for new AI powered features and this was something they thought would work and would look impressive in a commercial, probably.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by modzu »

RankingMember wrote: post #172

I hope Brave considers eventually removing the crypto aspect from their product, because once all that crap is turned off it's my preferred browser. Just hard to recommend to anyone not savvy enough to turn all the goofy stuff on their "new tab" page off.

just get a better new tab page:

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by 999900000999 »

juujian wrote: post #126
999900000999 wrote: post #124

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Linux is great if you're hardware is supported. I've never been able to get Linux working right on one of my laptops, on another only rolling releases work. These rolling releases like to break every 3 to 6 months. Windows is much more stable on both laptops. With my mini PC eGPU combo Linux just won't recognize the eGpu at all.

Obligatory "my experience diverges." Which manufacturers were those? New flagship devices or more established hardware?

https://www.asus.com/laptops/for-home/vivobook/asus-vivobook...

Maybe it's been fixed, but I brought this on release last year, it never worked right with Linux.

Hours upon hours of trying to fix it for naught.

I actually prefer Linux as a daily driver, I have the Ultra Core V2 version of the same laptop and rolling releases are generally fine for 3 to 6 months. At which point I just reinstall , while leaving Windows intact.

I guess if you want to buy a slightly older laptop or at least one with a slightly older CPU things are fine.

Refurbished Thinkpads excel particularly well here.

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