Besides Veracrypt, are there any real alternatives to Bitlocker for total drive encryption in Windows?
run Windows as a VM in linux
lol, creative. bad performance though.
Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
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So far I haven't had much concrete reason for my family to switch away from Windows. The updates maybe, needing to pay for a new license and the UI changes are like pulling the chair out from under them, especially as they get older (Windows 7 was hard for my grandma, thankfully they left 10 mostly alone but 11 is quite different again so she's currently staying on 10 — not that her hardware supports 11 anyway but th…
You'll find that people that are not computer experts will take to modern Linux with much more ease than those that have complex needs, which for 90% of the people these days means that access to the Web satisfies all their needs. Moving from Windows 7 to 11 will probably be as traumatic as moving from Windows 11 to KDE, so it's an investment worth doing in my opinion.
That's my expectation, but I've got a father who forces Microsoft products upon everyone for the reason that they're paid and industry standard and thus must be good (no, there is no argument possible; yes, it's worth the money even if mom touches spreadsheets less than once a year). I have the greatest trouble getting Libreoffice and Thunderbird to be a thing (since I can actually support that over the phone); Linux will be a whole 'nother challenge. He's quite full of himself and people eat it up, and free stuff that nerds use is definitely not on his prestige list
One day for sure though. They're slowly all getting old and asking more of me. Maybe when the current hardware generation needs replacing I'll give it a stab. Indeed, they need very little beyond a browser, Thunderbird (just because they're used to a local email client), a PDF reader (Evince/PdfJS have way fewer buttons and clutter and pop-ups than the Adobe crap), and some WYSIWYG editor compatible with the old doc(x) format (like Libreoffice). The time where local stores shipped photo-album-designer software are probably long gone, though I should double check beforehand
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As much as I like bashing Microsoft, never underestimate people's capacity for incompetence, especially where large organizations are involved. I don't see how they would gain anything from this move.
It doesn’t help that they do that sort of shits AND mandate a microsoft account for logging in to windows. Also how much trust can you have that if you move your business to azure they will not randomly kill it. Incompetence or malice, almost doesn’t matter to the average user.
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I think business are going to be forced to change their thinking on this. Im not interesting in emulating windows progs in wine. I switched to Thunderbird a long time ago and other programs that give me the features I need with-out sacrificing my freedom.
Thunderbird UI is absolute trash. LibreOffice also has bad UI choices and glitches. It’s not like we’re talking VLC vs OS Media Player here. You can stomp your feet, but the world uses Exchange and Office and not for no reasons at all.
If you say so
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Amazing that their processes failed and didn't work, so the VP lashes out at everyone calling them out for it. It's not like Microslop isn't a huge organization that is the critical component here. Extremely unprofessional response, I'll reiterate, they see regular users as a nuisance.
I guess the real problem is, everybody's inbox is overwhelmed with useless junk. Expect someone read and follow instructions in email are not that realistic anymore
>inbox is overwhelmed
This is (mainly) why I stopped using email.
If you need to send me something, you'll need to send me a postcard (PO Box).
Were I to ever go back to digital communication, it would be by whitelists, only.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
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I knew the speculation on him being involved in some capacity, but as the wiki page states, this was never confirmed in any substantial way. More importantly, if development seized with no public comment, that would be one thing and may strengthen the "he got arrested" theory. However, there was some final communication, specific recommendations to rely on Bitlocker of all things, a new version of Truecrypt was relea…
Wasn’t there something with 7.1A and that the canary was gone after that version too?
Developer also recommended (tongue-in-cheek) to use Microsoft's built-in encryption services (easily defeated) in his outgoing blogpost — perhaps because he was barred from explaining the real reason for project's cancelation.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#519This is the same problem I'm currently facing with WireGuard. No warning at all, no notification. One day I sign in to publish an update, and yikes, account suspended. Currently undergoing some sort of 60 days appeals process, but who knows. That's kind of crazy: what if there were some critical RCE in WireGuard, being exploited in the wild, and I needed to update users immediately? (That's just hypothetical; don't f…
Did you also receive the same support email? They always just tell me to ask copilot, then they open a case using copilot, and then they tell me to ask copilot again. I said I wanted to prove that the code didn't contain malicious code, and they still told me to ask copilot... This account has been suspended because the code you submitted contains malware or potential vulnerabilities. If you believe your account was…
How can you _prove_ (“demonstrate”) that your software doesn’t contain malware or any vulnerabilities?
They can’t do that for any of their own software for sure…
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
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Irrelevant. If it's time to stop using windows, all those windows users will have to relearn everything either way. Whether they do it in a windows environment or a linux one doesn't really change the equation. A sudden lack of software on windows will increase user migration. If we all keep publishing for windows, users will just stay there because their needs are already met.
> If it's time to stop using windows, all those windows users will have to relearn everything either way. No, that's the thing; they ideally would only need to replace the OS. Many long years ago, when I switched from Windows to Ubuntu (this was back when it was good), part of why it was so easy is because I mostly kept the same applications. If you use eg. Firefox, VLC, open/libreoffice, audacity, etc., then you can…
And for a company, not having to train people on all new applications at once might be what makes it _practically_ possible at all.