Just use Linux. It is easy.
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
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
You get a prompt to enter Bitlocker recovery key if you turn off Secure boot in BIOS.
That's Windows doing that, which they've just compromised and then configured to display only the normal login prompt but send your credentials to the attacker. They can also decrypt your hard drive by doing the same thing without modifying the original machine by just stealing it and leaving you a compromised one of the same model to also steal your password.
If evil maid attack, and you see this prompt, you a) re-enable secure boot, if did not work b) throw away the device.
In any case data stays secure.
Edit: Hmm, you have a point, how do I know secure boot was disabled in the first place? Anyway, still works for servers and unattended reboots.
Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forced updates were the last straw for me - after several iterations of using my machine until late, then being forced to let it update itself for another 30-60 minutes when I just wanted to switch everything off and go to bed, and noting that Proton made almost every game playable on Linux (thanks Valve).... the switch was a no-brainer.
My work laptop allows me a view into the dystopian Windows future, including updates as you've described as well as the occasional update and reboot in the middle of doing actual work - yes, I know it should not happen like that, but reality doesn't seem to care for _should_ or _should not_. Just a rare as it is inexplicable.
Meanwhile if a Linux distro wants to update, it politely asks you, and then goes away again when you say no ^^
Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
fyi NTFS works perfectly on my linux machine.. ntfs-3g ftw
iirc linux can read ntfs but not write...unless things progressed. it was a licence issue, not a software one.
Things progressed, certainly, and it looks like this was broadly fixed in October 2021 (kernel 5.15):
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/
But there will be details, limitations of some kind, and I can't work out what those are without much more digging.
Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
#345I 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…
Glad you are trying Linux again!
But on WinME that was complete trash.. Never has an is crashed so much on me... I went to Win2k after that ... Win2k was the last windows I ran in a PC and was IMO peak windows.
Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. Remote attestation can be misused, yes. But why writing it as TPM is the problem? In cases where remote attestation is used for good, TPM improves the setup, if anything. I dont see the rationale for what you wrote, and am genuinely curious what it is.
TPMs form the root of trust needed for remote attestation. If not TPMs, cryptographic co-processors can do similar things, or work in tandem with TPMs to accomplish the same thing.
Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
#347The fact Linux has like a zillion iterations and is all open source and free just proves companies like Microsoft are gangsters. They got to the hill first and now they sit on top with a gun.
Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
#348Nobody thinks this is a weird reaction to an OS update that's been out for years at this point and barely makes a difference over the previous version? There's no 'Recall'. Co-pilot isn't all over in your face so removing it isn't really a priority. Edge isn't forced on you, it's just part of the bundled software just like a bunch of other items as in every Windows for decades. Not saying it doesn't get hairy if you'…
Almost nobody thinks that. You sound like you don't use or are not very familiar with your OS very much tbh
Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
#349IT & software dev for a small-midsize company. I wasn't able to finish migrating last month due to a pressing project, but we're migrating almost all of our systems at work to Linux. 90% of our user's work is done in a browser, and the other 10% is in an in-house application I wrote. That app works on Linux, since my work machine has been on Linux for years. We'll have a few macs and 2 win11 machines, but the rest ar…
Next step: escape the Google ecosystem. LibreOffice for docs (its far superior to Google Docs anyway). Syncthing for drive.
Slightly disagree - while LibreOffice might be better in features, the UI/UX of Google Docs worked so much better for me, it's not even funny.
Re: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could but I do not need to, so i'd rather make better use of the time it would take me to move at this time. Biggest pain point actually are not programs, but the need to format all hard drives to some linux file system. I cannot just replace windows with linux and that is it. No, I have to migrate all my data somehow to reformat all my drives and then move the data back. That was always huge pain in the ass.
fyi NTFS works perfectly on my linux machine.. ntfs-3g ftw
ntfs-3g uses a userspace driver that crap-ifies the performance