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Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
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Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is worrying on many levels. So Microsoft force you to create an account to use Windows and then they reserve the right to block you from your own account, thereby potentially making you lose access to all your OWN data. This is crazy and yet another reason to stop using Windows as soon as possible.
I know it's not what people want to hear but my response to a lot of the comments here is just a general, I agree, it's time to stop using Windows. They won't let you secure your drive the way you want. They won't let you secure your network the way you want (per the top-level comment about Wireguard). In so doing they are demonstrating not just that they can stop you from running these particular programs but that t…
Stop supporting Windows as well.
Open source developers are doing Microsoft a big favor when they support Windows and publish Windows builds and installers. It's a substantial effort, and apparently that effort isn't appreciated.
If all open source software dropped support for Windows, it wouldn't really affect the open source community that much. It would definitely cause headaches for Microsoft however.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#203Besides Veracrypt, are there any real alternatives to Bitlocker for total drive encryption in Windows?
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#204Microsoft continues to push for year of the Linux desktop
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
I'm more convinced than ever that this aphorism has it completely backwards.
It was probably true at some point, then malicious people learned how to fake stupidity and they outnumber actual stupid people, and they learned how to recruit stupid people to their causes.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#206This is always a problem when big mega-corporations are involved, be it Google or Microsoft. They want to control the platform. We really need viable solutions. I have been using Linux since +21 years or so, so it does not affect me personally, but I think Linux needs to become really a LOT more accessible to normal people. And it really has not (on the desktop); all the various "improvements" on GNOME3 or KDE are ba…
I will continue to suppose that the “real issue” with Linux is that the people drawn to developing it will not work well with others and continue year after year to waste time and duplication of effort on five decent, and ten thousand pointless distributions.
Whatever reason for this refusal / inability / choice to not contribute but rather re-create is on the reader to assume.
There is very little effort put into real progress as you point out. Sure, tons of work to move from x11 to Wayland, cool, only the developers give a shit… where is Office/365 that would make daily driving actually viable?
While WINE is impressive, it seems the only real progress for anything past Windows 7 is on paid versions of which there are at least three competing options.
Linux Desktop progress is slow because there it’s thousands of floundering side-projects without a goal of actually pulling normal users in.
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and yet... still unusable by the mass majority of people.
Linux is stuck because it's made and maintained by people who love linux. Look at popular unix based OS's - Android, MacOS, iOS.. Whats the first thing they do? Take the command line out back and shoot it. Whereas for linux users, their is this l33t h4cker festishization of only using a keyboard to do everything. All these distros have an extremely robust CLI under the hood, and an afterthought quasi GUI on the surfa…
Why do folks act like windows isn't full of cli commands? First thing on any windows box is running debloat in powershell. Installing apps from a gui in Linux has been solved for a long time.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not used does not mean not usable. Primary school aged children used MS-DOS without any documentation in 1990's. Pretty sure randomly selected people would be able to use modern Linux distro, when pre-installed just like windows are.
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Folks like you need to just install Linux and use it.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm more convinced than ever that this aphorism has it completely backwards.
It was probably true at some point, then malicious people learned how to fake stupidity and they outnumber actual stupid people, and they learned how to recruit stupid people to their causes.
Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by profit motives.