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Highly recommended way to use any flavor of windows going back to way back when - give your admin account a long fancy password and then just rarely logon as that account. Your daily driver is an account with normal priviliges. Also good for Grandma so she can't install a bunch of spyware
Good until your Grandma calls you because some software require the admin password.
I don't understand Microsoft's product strategy. The push for WSL, PowerToys, a new powerful Terminal, was obviously a ploy to attract developers after Apple's hardware (2016-2019) and software (2011-) decline. Now what? More telemetry, more cloud-as-default, required Microsoft accounts, Edge sabotaging Firefox and constantly making itself the default browser. I actually like Windows, I understand its flaws and how t…
Well look at how many people are fooled. Appearances matter, not just matter, make and break an entity. So PR is ramped up to 11. Propaganda works even if, and in a certain case, especially if there are contradictions like that.
>this is plain creepy
Always has been. For one example, which was a major turnoff for me from Microsoft, was them pushing the idea of Trusted Computing, back in the mid 2000s. Always-on internet was getting widespread adoption, so they tinkered with the idea: what if we would always check the software's and files' authenticity, every time they are opened?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing
Make no mistake, they're past the point where they need people to like them. With enough clout, all they (or any other large corporation) need to do is offer competitive prices while they retain their influence. The rest will take care of itself.
May the stars, the galaxy and all forces of nature combined push me away from any Windows OS from now on and, at the same time, pull me towards Debian and its likes.
I'm not a MS hater, but WTF with all the ever growing telemetry, spam and the Edge enforcement efforts. Esp. what they do with Edge drove me over the edge. A couple of weeks ago I made the first step. Still running Windows 10 as base but with VMWare Workstation running Ubuntu LTS. I do all serious work in Ubuntu. Before that my whole dev setup was on Windows. Still hesitant to move to something like ESXi (also becaus…
It's the zeitgeist of computing. Can you point out a single large established entity that doesn't do this?
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Come on. That's like still bringing up the Sony CD rootkit incident as a valid reason to boycott them so many years later. Ubuntu reversed course on ads pretty quickly, and if any of the past 4-6 years worth of LTS releases included ads, then they were so unobtrusive I literally didn't notice anything was there. If you want to hurt Linux adoption by discouraging the most Just Works distribution for normal people, be…
Secretly installing malware on millions of customers' computers then releasing an uninstaller that installs additional malware is such a cartoonishly evil/ridiculous thing to do that I have nothing but respect for someone still boycotting Sony 17 years later. It's not like anyone at Sony spent time behind bars because of it.
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Yes, which is exactly why you should be fighting against those two as well. I'm doing my bit by not putting much valuable data besides YouTube playlists into my very ancient Google account, and using Linux on the desktop.
For (sane) business e-mail you basically have 3 choices: MS, Google or Zoho. I recently commented on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30266721
Dialing up the annoyance level to a 11. Microsoft has spent the last 6 years or more glacially gravitating its OS-developer features towards Ubuntu. Because they couldn't do better - VSCode being the one crowning glory - and not an insignificant one. The side annoyances of a barely functional Cortana & Edge, were things I looked past, now add one more, a required account - we'll be led into unknown realms of integrat…
> and not an insignificant one. And it's all due to how Code is both open-source in spirit and in truth, and aren't beholden to silly sales targets. You can see what this sort of thing does to a project when the Visual Studio 2022 team tried to move `dotnet watch` HMR functionality to Visual Studio 2022[0] instead of leaving it in VS Code. 0: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22217
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I actually hate VS Code after earnestly trying it for a year (2019). It is decades behind other IDEs in terms of capability.
It's a code editor, not an IDE... they never claimed otherwise. Sure, there are extensions now that almost make it an IDE (integrated debugger, support for some build systems, etc.) but if you need the real thing, get the real thing. For debugging native code I always bring up Visual Studio or WinDBG, but as an editor, VSCode is significantly lighter and faster (despite it being built on Electron) than full VS.
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> seems a bit optimistic in the short term ReactOS was started in 1998, 24 years ago. Just saying :-)
Well, clean-room reverse-engineering something as complex as Windows will take time. I'm sure most are fine using their machines (virtual or otherwise) while they wait however more years until ReactOS reaches feature parity.
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Some stink you just can’t wash off.
That's like saying that Linux was bad in 1991, so it can't possibly be good enough to use 30 years later. Evidently, stink can wash off just fine.