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Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by Endbringer »

eropple wrote: post #73
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>This is where you start going off the rails. People did buy hardware that was compatible with the operating system they do use. It is super presumptuous and weird to try this sleight-of-hand in your argument. Make new purchases more intelligently. >You are now off the rails and airborne. Excel is still largely unsupported and breaks nontrivial spreadsheets. The UI is also, IMO, a huge step backwards from Office and…

I've been using Linux as a daily driver for fifteen years. I have shot my share of trouble and the next two guys' too. It's not a good experience . It's bad . Even when things aren't breaking left, right, and sideways (which, to be clear, definitely happens less often today than five years ago, with the corollary that that breakage is usually something a mere mortal can't do too much about), it feels kinda...well, sh…

> Even when things aren't breaking left, right, and sideways, it feels kinda...well, shitty.

Funny, because this is exactly how I would describe windows 10.

Anyway!

> If you don't have a positive argument for using your thing instead of framing its competition negatively, few people will ever use it.

There are plenty of positive arguments. They have been repeated over and over so I won't do it again.

> It's not a good experience. It's bad.

> Because, for most people and including most developers, it is a strictly inferior good.

Citations needed. Because this seems purely your subjective opinion. I'm sure many people will share it with you, but that definitely isn't my experience and many will share my opinion too.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by glenneroo »

hendersoon wrote: post #30
glenneroo wrote: post #25

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Maybe they changed it, but I just checked my fresh install of Pro build 1703 from MSDN and it was disabled.

Odd, their docs say it's on by default. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...

One of the handful of tools I installed from Ninite must have turned it off then. After a quick look, I'm guessing it was Classic Start Menu.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by hvidgaard »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #220
hvidgaard wrote: post #196

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Are you running special hardware? Ever since Vista I have at most had to install a graphics driver, and that is it. Windows networking failures seems to be driver issues when I debug them, just as they are on Linux, but I haven't had any myself on either system. To me, and without exception, every single person I talk with about this, have less issues with Windows or OSX, than Linux. This is primarily CS majors that…

That seems that they're forced into the OS, rather than choosing it. I do have a tendency to gripe about zugzwang, too.

The tools only exist for Linux, but there are plenty of machines available to remote into. Many just choose to install it on their own machine because they want to.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by makomk »

sathackr wrote: post #76
benjaminjackman wrote: post #64

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I switched about 10 years ago. Before that I was windows 100% on desktop. I had similar issues at first but gradually became pretty comfortable with Ubuntu and Linux in general. Some things are more of a pain and may always be in Linux but overall the experience for me has been that things have been getting easier with time. I think that for better or worse as more applications move to the web the change will be easi…

I don't mind the questions at all. I hope you didn't want the TL;DR version. Some of my pain points. Many probably have solutions, but I'm stuck between spending time dealing with it the way it is, and spending time finding a solution. These are not in any particular order: 1. Serial communication(terminal, for interfacing with console ports). I tried a few programs that didn't really work right away, and settled on…

The simplest way of getting a serial terminal under Linux is to run screen under your preferred graphical terminal program. First parameter is the port, second is the baud rate, Ctrl-A shift-K exits. To access the serial device without root you need to add your user to the appropriate group, probably dialout.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by crazymax »

CommanderData wrote: post #190
jmacpore wrote: post #3

Does anyone know a good updated firewall whitelist to allow just Windows Updates and nothing else?

Yes. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned here. https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d... Comes in several formats: hosts, firewall, openwrt, dnscrypt. You can choose telemetry, update and extra. Has ip rules aswell as DNS rules. I am actually thinking of writing a modular openwrt luci plugin to make it easy to add to your router as it is only effective on router level as other have mentioned…

Hi, i'm the developer of WindowsSpyBlocker and it would be nice if you can contribute on the openwrt part :)

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by Sephr »

blibble wrote: post #32

every few weeks Microsoft validate my decision to move my (declining) use of Windows entirely into VMs if gaming is the problem you can run Windows in a VM at 97% native speed with GFX passthrough, been doing this for almost 2 years now without any problems the vfio subreddit has a lot of info: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ MS are then free to spy on me playing starcraft as much as they want

It doesn't help that Nvidia's drivers intentionally stop working when they detect a consumer card functioning through VT-D in a virtualized environment.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by blibble »

Sephr wrote: post #266
blibble wrote: post #32

every few weeks Microsoft validate my decision to move my (declining) use of Windows entirely into VMs if gaming is the problem you can run Windows in a VM at 97% native speed with GFX passthrough, been doing this for almost 2 years now without any problems the vfio subreddit has a lot of info: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ MS are then free to spy on me playing starcraft as much as they want

It doesn't help that Nvidia's drivers intentionally stop working when they detect a consumer card functioning through VT-D in a virtualized environment.

you can patch the driver, and next time you upgrade don't purchase an nvidia product

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by eropple »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #77
eropple wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using Linux as a daily driver for fifteen years. I have shot my share of trouble and the next two guys' too. It's not a good experience . It's bad . Even when things aren't breaking left, right, and sideways (which, to be clear, definitely happens less often today than five years ago, with the corollary that that breakage is usually something a mere mortal can't do too much about), it feels kinda...well, sh…

It's not really my thing, but Plasma seems like a really solid desktop. What are your complaints with it? And I'll raise this point again: >You and people like you are the reason that it's not as good as it could be. I use Linux as my daily driver and it works extremely well. But if you continue to let it languish with a small market share because you can't be bothered to troubleshoot it for 10 minutes or maybe live…

So X decided to reverse my displays today, despite precisely zero patches or changes being applied to the system, and the GUI tool for rearranging them, because life is tremendously too short to go screw with config files to make my GUI work, won't actually save a config file that fixes the problem on reboot.

This is fine. This is great. Everyone should waste their time with this.

Or not.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by NOSHSHNACKERS »

sqldba wrote: post #119
sathackr wrote: post #48

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I went through the same thing last year. I spent two months trying to plug all the holes in the enterprise version, for a medium sized healthcare client, and eventually gave up. The LTSB edition looks promising but I haven't put it under the microscope yet.

From what I've heard from people running LTSB it's absolutely awful. Driver support is abysmal and lots of desired Windows features don't exist on it. There's apparently some new LTSB on its way but this aside it is not the panacea this thread makes it out to be.

this is fud.. if you know a guy you can get and run ltsb without a key and the only drawback is you cant change your desktop wallpaper. its crazy.. its perfect and free.
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