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Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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Post by aaronmdjones »

silisili wrote: post #185
koyote wrote: post #141

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Some things that any semi-power user will notice and get angry at: * Needing internet and a microsoft account to install the OS * Start menu now requiring two clicks to get to programs list * Right-click requiring two clicks to get to the options you most likely want to use (e.g. 7z unzip or opening in a specific program) * Task manager being slow and laggy * Random ads asking you to install a game pop up in the noti…

Oh goodness yes. I was forced from Linux to W11 Pro for my new job. Use wsl2 they said, it'll be fine. And wsl2 is mostly fine. But that doesn't stop the rest of the OS from being a dumpster fire. Why is it asking me to install or play Xbox games constantly? It feels like I have malware...

     It feels like I have malware...
You do; it's called Windows.

I jumped ship over a decade ago and have been using Linux Mint as my daily driver; there hasn't been one day I've regretted it. Seeing the recent news about the constant full-screen Windows Backup/OneDrive popovers and needing a Microsoft Account just to install the OS (they recently killed the OOBE workaround) is just the stale icing on this dumpster fire of a cake.

Don't even get me started on all the AI crap in Edge.

Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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Post by entropie »

OvbiousError wrote: post #291
gethly wrote: post #264

I have been using windows since version 95. I even liked the Millennium version, that was most hated before Vista. I tried Linux several times, but Windows just always worked and Linux usually had always some issues(mostly drivers, lack of good programs and no gaming). But now, after more than two decades, I am certain Windows 10 is my last Windows. Nothing lasts for ever, not even Microsoft's domination on personal…

Gaming on linux has been awesome for years. With the advent of systems like bazzite, the transition is only getting easier.

As far as I know almost all (if not all) anti cheat software just does not work on linux therefore "gaming on linux has been awesome for years" is not true if you play games online or competitive.

Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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Post by dapperdrake »

ykonstant wrote: post #286
Aardwolf wrote: post #253

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I don't have issues with Nvidia drivers in Archlinux (using cinnamon and X) after pacman updates that sometimes update kernel and/or Nvidia drivers, I'm curious what's different in your setup to get these issues Also, how are the graphics drivers affecting LUKS for you? They are two independent and unrelated things for me, Nvidia drivers aren't doing anything disk or pam related > If they have a printer, connect it a…

Same here; I have had crazy hardware work out of the box in linux, but printers remain a mystery. Furthermore, last time I tried printing, it was a surreal non-deterministic process. It wouldn't print, then it would, then it would get stuck in a handshake or something, rebooting wouldn't fix it, but rebooting twice would, then turning off the printer would break it again, and so on. No system update in between attemp…

It’s really surprising how printing from a Mac or iPhone just works. The foss people screwed up printing somehow.

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Post by breakingcups »

IlikeKitties wrote: post #87
heavyset_go wrote: post #72

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> I would say that specifically with Secure Boot, Microsoft actually promoted user choice: A Windows Logo compliant PC needs to have Microsoft's root of trust installed by default. Microsoft could have stopped there, but they didn't. This was not the case with the initial rollout of Secure Boot, it was combined with locked BIOS to lock PCs so that they could only boot Windows 8 on some devices. This was the case on W…

> There is also a real potential for abusing TPMs or cryptographic co-processors to enforce remote attestation. People here REALLY need to start understanding this issue. Remote Attestation is the kind of tech that if abused will end free computing over night.

There's a reason Microsoft is aggressively deprecating "older" CPU's that work perfectly fine. Heck, I have one laptop with Windows 11 that worked great, but won't update from 22h2 to 24h2 because CPU support was dropped between versions, leaving me with only the glib suggestion from the Windows Update UI to "Buy a new device".

Ironically, installing Windows 10 and activating ESU would lead to longer hardware life.

Of course, I didn't. Instead, I installed Linux on that laptop too. My partner had no issues switching.

Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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Post by rixed »

kragen wrote: post #297
rixed wrote: post #220

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Want another exemple as fresh as yesterday? I'm on a move, had to pay some transport company to move some stuff for me, pick-up date tomorrow. Paid online, website asked for a confirmation from my bank's app (N26), fair enough. Opened the app, just to be greated with "Please Update. The latest app version includes new features, enhancements and stability improvements" with the only choice: "Update now". Being confron…

Your story is appalling, and I agree that this is a major problem. However, drowning in e-waste from smartphones is many orders of magnitude from being an issue, as trivial calculations easily show. Mentioning it makes your argument rhetorically much weaker. The iPhone 16 is 147.6mm × 71.6mm × 7.8mm (8.2 × 10⁻⁵ m³) and weighs 170g, according to https://www.dimensions.com/element/apple-iphone-16-18th-gen . The populat…

"Drowning in e-waste" was a metaphor for "slowly destroying the conditions for civilisation with the violent obsession for more fossil fuel and more minerals to extract".

Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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Post by izacus »

jasomill wrote: post #275
Ferret7446 wrote: post #219

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There is no password. The machine will fail to boot and decrypt you hard drive.

So don't turn off secure boot. Replace the target machine with an identical decoy machine set up to capture whatever credentials are required to log in to the machine once BitLocker auto-unlocks, then use these to log in to Windows on the original machine and steal any encrypted data accessible by the user who logs in. This would be more difficult to pull off in the presence of non-password security like a hardware t…

You're now just making up more and more ridiculous nonsense to beat a wrong point.

Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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Post by wartywhoa23 »

gethly wrote: post #264

I have been using windows since version 95. I even liked the Millennium version, that was most hated before Vista. I tried Linux several times, but Windows just always worked and Linux usually had always some issues(mostly drivers, lack of good programs and no gaming). But now, after more than two decades, I am certain Windows 10 is my last Windows. Nothing lasts for ever, not even Microsoft's domination on personal…

I switched to Ubuntu 3 years ago and never looked back for a daily driver.

The reason Windows (and Microsoft itself) is not 6' deep yet is a relatively small number of commercial creative software like DAWs, graphics suits and CAD modellers. Yes, there's a huge amount of legacy software in CAM, plant control and whatnot, but that can run alright on all those Windows XP and 7 machines like forever.

All major software vendors who think that Windows has too much inertial following and that its users will embrace whatever fascist surveillance machine their computers become under this abomination of OS, and refuse to port their products to Linux, will be in trouble soon.

Out of all DAW developers, only Bitwig got this trend right yet.

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Post by pharos92 »

tombert wrote: post #115
d3Xt3r wrote: post #75

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- For diagrams, draw.io is a decent alternative - Similarly for Photoshop users, Photopea might suit them better than GIMP. And there's also Photoshop Express/Online if they really want to stay in the Adobe ecosystem.

Draw.io is my go-to tool on any platform now. I did an entire bachelors and masters using it for all my diagrams. I like OmniGraffle but personally I didn't think it was worth it when draw.io was free anyway. Like I don't feel it was $150-$250 better than draw.io, especially since it's not cross platform.

Draw.io all the way. I've operated as a Network Consultant and Architect for the last 3 years using it exclusively. Not only is it great, it's fast and cross-platform. I will never use visio again.

Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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Post by jogu »

entropie wrote: post #302
OvbiousError wrote: post #291

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Gaming on linux has been awesome for years. With the advent of systems like bazzite, the transition is only getting easier.

As far as I know almost all (if not all) anti cheat software just does not work on linux therefore "gaming on linux has been awesome for years" is not true if you play games online or competitive.

This is simply not true. Most anti-cheat software does work on linux, but many games choose not to allow linux.

This has a good list of what works and what doesn't: https://areweanticheatyet.com

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