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Windows Recall: Microsoft has lost trust with its users

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Re: Windows Recall: Microsoft has lost trust with its users

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Post by the_snooze »

linguae wrote: post #18
uxcolumbo wrote: post #2

If 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 af…

>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.

I feel like tech companies are constricting their future talent pools by doing this. But maybe they want to kill their future competition too. You already get university students now who don't know what files and folders are, which they need before moving into the basics of navigating a command line or source tree.

Usable and accessible computers are great. But locking them down to the point of eliminating user agency and learning seems really shortsighted.

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Post by taco_emoji »

> droves of people are proclaiming they will proudly switch to Linux or Mac in the wake of it

Citation needed. What kind of rag is this? The entire article is full of falsifiable claims without any links to surveys or any sort of data. They have screenshots of tweets or whatever, but that's essentially useless.

I am absolutely not defending Microsoft's moronic behavior here, but I have a hard time believing the VAST majority of Windows users have even heard of Recall, much less are concerned about it, and even fewer would have the wherewithal to even be able to switch.

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Post by mwcampbell »

api wrote: post #23
chucke1992 wrote: post #14

Aside windowscentral and one wired article, I don't think anybody really cares.

The people who care tend to be the ones who write software. Not a great crowd for an OS vendor to lose.

I'm not so sure about that. Many people who write software have learned not to care about anything other than developing for the platform(s) where the users are, in the most expedient way possible. So unless there really is a mass user exodus from Windows, which I doubt will happen, we'll continue to develop for Windows.

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Post by karaterobot »

> On paper, it's a cool idea.

To me, even on paper it's a terrible idea. I never want this, ever, or anything like it. I imagine this hypothetical paper as just having the words "your computer is now a way to create a vector describing your buying characteristics" and there's a big circle drawn around it, and all the Ss have been turned into dollar signs.

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Post by quaffapint »

uxcolumbo wrote: post #4
31337Logic wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux Mint. Already there. :-)

Any applications or things from Windows you miss?

Notepad++ ...There are alternatives, but none that save the current session (including unsaved files). The best option was to run it through Wine, but that seems overkill for a notepad style app.

And thats my beef every time I switch to Linux, I come back to Windows because the apps in Windows are there and it just works. I used Linux Mint for a year, but it was a lot of finding similar but not quite as good apps as what I would use on Windows.

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