One of the things AI is really good at is information laundering. If MS made a search engine that could index everyone's private documents, that would be an obvious violation. But if they train a neural network on private documents, suddenly there's just a magic box that "knows" everything.
Not only information laundering but trendspotting.
Looking at certain sites too often? Hobbies 'far right'? Congratulations, your 'helpful' AI is now a tool of the NSA, FBI, CIA and DOJ. It allows spying on every personal device, which is why Gates is making it impossible not to upgrade.
My laptop got bricked for a month until I finally allowed Windows 11 to update and now I can't revert it. Microsoft literally locked me out of functionality until I updated after months or rejecting it.
Same thing happened to me like 5 years ago. Windows 7 update bricked my computer. It was a 4790k, so i went and upgraded to 9900k and upgraded to win 10 as well.
Yup, this is precisely what I was worried about when I started delving into some AI-document summarizing software. Open-source and self-hosted, with extra security precautions, I have absolutely no worries. I can move the saved data into some inaccessible location when it's not in use, only use it with Internet access disabled, firewall lock things, etc.
But anything requiring or automating Internet connectivity or cloud access is completely off the table and dangerous as hell. Even more-so when it's being managed by a company with everything to gain by accumulating that data for their own uses or to sell off to others.
I have a file server at home that I keep personal documents on. Right now it’s running Windows 10 and I use a 3rd party firewall program on it. Do you know what Windows services I need to block to keep it from phoning home?
For Windows 11? Not a clue. I've not gotten around to researching too in depth into what I'd need to tackle if I had to switch to Windows 11, but after getting past the nefarious shit of Windows 10 I feel confident that it wouldn't be too challenging to keep Windows 11 in line.
Plus, the reality is that "most" of these potentially draconian features that get embedded into the OS are not typically designed for full control and effect. Aside from Windows update and Windows security, it's "usually" pretty easy to lock down any scheduled processes and keep them from running.
Back to your main question though, I'm guessing that Windows will have any such features configured (by default) around scanning and processing common document directories under the user directory. Not that I'd count on that to necessarily be the case in the end, but it is conducive to how MS typically runs things. It's mostly just something where you'll have to wait and see exactly how it's implemented to know how for sure how to disable it.
And this shit is why I will run Windows 10 til it goes out of support in 2025, and then switch to linux.
I installed Windows 95 off floppies, way back when, and have used every OS Microsoft has made (except for ME, fuck that abortion). Windows 10 will be the last.
I've already mostly switched to Linux. Technically it's a dual boot with Windows 10 because there are just some games/mods that I can't get to work in Linux...but I physically remove my ethernet cable when I boot into Windows 10.
That's how paranoid Microsoft has made me with their shit.
Just reminder that "interlinked" mods can be a massive pain in the ass, thanks to how wine/proton "emulates" a "C:" partiton. - also, have fun trying to get the Fallout 4 Script Extendor to run.
God forbid you try to game on your gaming PC, the audacity of Linux users, quick let's hurl more insults at them instead of fixing obvious compatibility problems or offering solutions :P
Windows 10 LTSC gets support up until 2027 (you can get it from the mydigitallife forums), and Windows 10 LTSC IoT (Internet of Things, for ATMs and other devices that need long-term support) get supported up until 2032.
But honestly, until then win32s support of Proton is probably better than Windows itself.
No, you stupid techie fucks, decreased choice and freedom is not a “good thing…
The fuck is happening? It’s like the “normal” internet has just become a bunch of clapping seals who lap up whatever bullshit the tech companies and bloggers feed them, and then this somehow filters down to normal conversations…
I sometimes have to remind myself that I am not the crazy one, for thinking this is not ok…
Desktop Lunix is 100 different UX designs on top of 1000 semi-functional desktop OSs composed of 10000 pieces of software connected together like spaghetti.
Finally, somebody calling this shit out on Linux users other than me, don't get me started on software compatibility otherwise I would have happily switched to Linux ages ago. It's going to be easier for autists to find a way to fuck with and possibly block Windows 11's spying than it is for me to install New Vegas on a Linux machine.
What's needed is for the Linux community to come up with a linux distro I would call 'normie OS' or something like that. Specifically design it for people like me who don't want to jump through all of the compatibility hoops and no I don't want to use the fucking terminal for everything like it's the 90's and I'm on a DOS machine all over again.
The Linux autists just don't understand the concept of user friendliness which is why their comments on how to use Linux are almost always incredibly unhelpful the socially awkward muppets and they often get mad when you have the audacity to point this all out as an end user giving genuine feedback.
Also, the joke is many of them admit to doing dual boots with Windows, so really this is just them admitting that the problems are there without admitting to it when they offer that as a solution. I'd rather have one OS installed for the sake of simplicity. If these problems just got fixed, I would be happy, but they won't be because too many in the Linux community have their heads up their arses. Say what you will about Linus but he pointed all this out when he tried PoP!OS for the first time and got an extremely bitchy response from the dev.
It's going to be easier for autists to find a way to fuck with and possibly block Windows 11's spying than it is for me to install New Vegas on a Linux machine.
I've got five bucks that says all it takes is a quick registry hack that's all of about three lines of Powershell that any idiot can run.
Failing that my overall backup plan is to have all my important shit on a Linux machine so any potential backdoor takeover on my gaming machine can be wiped immediately or they won't be able to do anything too damaging. I already have multiple backups of my work generally to begin with but a second PC would make me feel that much more secure.
The problem is, your average normie expects the computer to work out of the box. And that will in 99.99% of cases be the latest version of Windows with the web browser and app store installed and ready to go with the prospect of installing Microsoft Office or maybe proprietary software that is used in their workplace. If they have to download an image to burn to a USB stick, it's already too complicated. Never mind getting to the prospect of dual booting or partitioning the hard drive. They won't be inclined to switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. And the chances of a computer from a mainstream store being pre-installed with Linux, a web browser and an app store is zero. Because Windows has a monopoly, everyone expects Windows and manufacturers will only install Windows.
The solution isn't going to be Apple's Mac OS either because they will eventually go the same way, just with a much higher price tag.
I agree and that's exactly part of the problem Linux users don't understand, at the same time though, I do feel I have to criticise Linux users who look at computers from the opposite end of the spectrum and seem to think it's a given you have to endlessly browse tutorials and search up shady looking github accounts for fixes to things that can be done so much simpler if I just install windows and ignore Linux.
For what it's worth with my own background, I'm not some retarded normie who can barely understand how a file browser works and is frightened of the concept of building my own PC. I've been using them since I was a child but I do think Linux users need to get this drilled into their heads from someone who's earnestly tried both with an open mind. I type out code on a daily basis now, the last thing I need is an absolute headache of a system that requires endless troubleshooting to do the most basic tasks if I want to just chill and play some games or watch anime.
This is the biggest obstacle to Linux mass adoption which is why advocate for a normie distro that's as easy to use as normies would want. Leave the autist distros to the autists if that's what they want, I'd love to open source everything for my PC, but the software just isn't there yet, at least I have gone open source with all my work related stuff so that's something and it's a million times better than the shit you have to pay for too.
The problem is making it compatible for every windows program is not as easy as people might think.
A game designed for linux, will work fine on linux, but will fail horribly on windows (almost assuredly). A game designed for windows, will work fine on windows, but will probably fail on linux.
The problem is everything is designed to work with windows, and until that changes, there is pretty much nothing to autists can do except screech at those continuing to design things for windows.
I remember reading about this and I think it was even a game dev that brought up this exact point. It's simply a matter of adoption rate statistics and ratio of cost vs benefit. I've forgotten what the exact statistic was but the dev was making a perfectly valid point that Linux users are in an absolute minority of userbase but make up the majority of bug reports and tech problems for their game.
Given this why would you waste time as a fairly big dev constantly have to get the game to work for a userbase that's frankly, not often all that grateful in the first place? I have to point out even this thread the Linux autists are being screechy and annoying over the valid points being brought up.
Until this attitude in the Linux community changes, the distros won't change and therefore Microsoft will keep winning. Being a game dev I'm lucky in that I've got Godot to do cross platform support but if I were a money man at these places I'd probably be doing the same maths on Linux from a practicality standpoint and it's just a fact that I'd be better off supporting Windows and Mac only than dealing with the absolute compatibility shitshow that is Linux. I want to support Linux though, for the sake of cross platform support and getting people freed from Microsoft, but boy are there a lack of incentives to do so.
By the way, this is a very similar problem with alt-tech where there isn't that much of an incentive for creators to make the switch yet, but at least with alt-tech it's extremely easy to get into using it compared to Linux because they devs have thought ahead on user friendliness.
This is approximately the same line that was being fed to me back in 2007 when Ubuntu was supposed to be the distro that finally made Linux compete with with the Windows desktop experience.
Windows works, you can bitch about the back end all you want but the fact is it's a breeze to use compared to Linux. I don't want to be forced to defend Microsoft but the Linux users leave me no choice lol.
It's only "easy" to use because of prior knowledge of UI patterns that almost everyone has thanks to Windows' historical market share. It's not naturally intuitive. I have seen lifelong Apple users (before OSX) that were completely lost on a Windows PC until they got used to it.
Obviously I'm not defending any particular Linux DE here, but I haven't done any research on them either.
I have never, ever been in a position where unplugging a USB device bricked my Windows installation. Meanwhile, if a USB storage device on my laptop running Mint gets unplugged without being dismounted (which happens, it's a laptop), I better start backing shit up because that installation is now ruined. Next time I try to boot, it just won't.
When I tell Linux creatures this story, they act like I'm just making shit up, or I must just be retarded, as if it's my first time using a computer and I haven't extensively tested this for my own sake. That Linux has real issues is beyond them.
Yep I completely feel you, my favourite thing I encountered was that when I tried connecting to the internet via my generic wireless adapter on my PC which works fine on Windows it simply wouldn't detect the hardware. Since I was dealing with house renovation at the time, I didn't have the proper wired internet setup I needed, so Linux made the decision for me that I had to use Windows. Oh and if anyone was wondering, I tried Ubuntu and Linux mint which are supposed to be some of the most properly supported distros out there.
It's only "easy" to use because of prior knowledge of UI patterns that almost everyone has thanks to Windows' historical market share.
Seriously, you think people would save the shit about "relearning how to use an OS" when Windows changes shit in every mainline release. Remember how Windows 8 removed the start menu and replaced it with that fucking tiles bullshit? Now you have Windows 11 centering your icons in the task bar instead of having them left-justified. "Oh, but it's only one thing you have to change". Oh, but I thought that Windows "works out of the box". Every single excuse people make to defend Windows is the words of a battered house wife: "You don't know him like I know him! I can't live without him! I can fix him! He loooooooooves me!"
No one comes out of the womb knowing how to drive a car, do basic math, or read basic words.
You are pretty much the very definition of the sort of Linux autist that I've been writing about in this thread. When people point out legit tech problems with Linux, you deflect and attack the users, then you wonder why Windows has such a high adoption rate and people refuse to make the switch, get a grip honestly.
I bet you're one of those 'Linux users' that dual boots windows regardless of how much you claim to hate Microsoft.
I'm far more hostile about the changes they're making to the administrative tool set. If I weren't already balls deep in Powershell the constant reshuffling of all the admin interfaces would make me shit a brick.
Literally everyone says Windows works until you have to do anything more basic than open a web browser. Popular Linux distros literally come with a graphical software manager that allows you to install programs without even opening a web browser. You're telling me that opening a Software Manager and clicking download is easier than having to find the webpage for the program, find the executable, download the executable, run the executable, and sometime have to restart your entire operating system?
Windows 11 literally gets on stage talking about how "no one else" has done fucking window tiling and acts like adding tabs to browsers is a big deal. Meanwhile, Linux DEs have had that shit for years. They even allow you to open files and folders with a single click. Can't wait for Microsoft to steal that so everyone can blast fucking rope about "how well made Windows is, you goys!"
The other (increasing) issue with Linux is that a lot of the distros (along with other open source projects) is getting taken over by the Woke crowd. openSUSE, for example, recently had a chunk of their mailing list chewing a guy out for asking why a rainbow icon was needed for the upcoming month of degeneracy, and one of the board members literally said people who don't like rainbow flags are rotten flesh who need to be cut out
Microsoft collecting all my data is bad. But at least Microsoft just wants my money, not my head.
Phew, boy am I glad I didn't install Windows 11. I thought Windows 10 was bad but SHEESH, 11 is a nightmare. What's next? Will Windows 12 only allow you to open websites, apps and files that it deems acceptable? Hell, will it delete your files if it finds them to be harmful to the LGBTBBQ?
Oh you know that will be coming, when they pull shit like that, that's probably when I will finally be forced onto Linux. I was twitchy enough when JSON got compromised by that Ukrainian activist and it affected discord and Unity.
Yeah, how dare you be expected to learn a skill! That takes away precious hours away from watching Soyflix and eating bugs!
You don't been to be "some kind of autist" to use Linux. You just need to stop being lazy and making excuses for consuming the goy slop.
The amount of fucking copium from people telling me why they need a proprietary operating system from a company feeding them ads through their file manager for the sole purpose of either browsing their data harvesting social media or live service games with anticheat that doesn't work so they can spend $20 on a single skin is unfuckingreal.
One of the things AI is really good at is information laundering. If MS made a search engine that could index everyone's private documents, that would be an obvious violation. But if they train a neural network on private documents, suddenly there's just a magic box that "knows" everything.
Not only information laundering but trendspotting.
Looking at certain sites too often? Hobbies 'far right'? Congratulations, your 'helpful' AI is now a tool of the NSA, FBI, CIA and DOJ. It allows spying on every personal device, which is why Gates is making it impossible not to upgrade.
My laptop got bricked for a month until I finally allowed Windows 11 to update and now I can't revert it. Microsoft literally locked me out of functionality until I updated after months or rejecting it.
Imagine just up and taking this kind of abuse instead of just running Linux.
Same thing happened to me like 5 years ago. Windows 7 update bricked my computer. It was a 4790k, so i went and upgraded to 9900k and upgraded to win 10 as well.
Yup, this is precisely what I was worried about when I started delving into some AI-document summarizing software. Open-source and self-hosted, with extra security precautions, I have absolutely no worries. I can move the saved data into some inaccessible location when it's not in use, only use it with Internet access disabled, firewall lock things, etc.
But anything requiring or automating Internet connectivity or cloud access is completely off the table and dangerous as hell. Even more-so when it's being managed by a company with everything to gain by accumulating that data for their own uses or to sell off to others.
I have a file server at home that I keep personal documents on. Right now it’s running Windows 10 and I use a 3rd party firewall program on it. Do you know what Windows services I need to block to keep it from phoning home?
For Windows 11? Not a clue. I've not gotten around to researching too in depth into what I'd need to tackle if I had to switch to Windows 11, but after getting past the nefarious shit of Windows 10 I feel confident that it wouldn't be too challenging to keep Windows 11 in line.
Plus, the reality is that "most" of these potentially draconian features that get embedded into the OS are not typically designed for full control and effect. Aside from Windows update and Windows security, it's "usually" pretty easy to lock down any scheduled processes and keep them from running.
Back to your main question though, I'm guessing that Windows will have any such features configured (by default) around scanning and processing common document directories under the user directory. Not that I'd count on that to necessarily be the case in the end, but it is conducive to how MS typically runs things. It's mostly just something where you'll have to wait and see exactly how it's implemented to know how for sure how to disable it.
And this shit is why I will run Windows 10 til it goes out of support in 2025, and then switch to linux.
I installed Windows 95 off floppies, way back when, and have used every OS Microsoft has made (except for ME, fuck that abortion). Windows 10 will be the last.
I've already mostly switched to Linux. Technically it's a dual boot with Windows 10 because there are just some games/mods that I can't get to work in Linux...but I physically remove my ethernet cable when I boot into Windows 10.
That's how paranoid Microsoft has made me with their shit.
did you already tried to " bootstrap" your mods with https://usebottles.com ? Thats how i got most of my mods running.
Nope, I'd never heard of that. Thanks, I'll give it a shot!
Just reminder that "interlinked" mods can be a massive pain in the ass, thanks to how wine/proton "emulates" a "C:" partiton. - also, have fun trying to get the Fallout 4 Script Extendor to run.
God forbid you try to game on your gaming PC, the audacity of Linux users, quick let's hurl more insults at them instead of fixing obvious compatibility problems or offering solutions :P
Do you use Bottles? It's been a complete waste of time for me and nothing at all works.
I've had better luck running Windows apps in Lutris, even if it wasn't a game.
Yes, I use bottles. But to be fair, if you can run games using the Heroic launcher, you should use that. Less painful, and works just as well.
I personally just don't bother since the only games that Linux can't run is bullshit like Destiny 2 and Rainbow Six Seige.
Windows 10 LTSC gets support up until 2027 (you can get it from the mydigitallife forums), and Windows 10 LTSC IoT (Internet of Things, for ATMs and other devices that need long-term support) get supported up until 2032.
But honestly, until then win32s support of Proton is probably better than Windows itself.
There are no words to express how thankful we need to be to Gaben for making Proton exist and work as well as it does.
I fucking called this shit, some months ago…
They ain’t giving up, and it’s only getting worse, because fucking Joe Public just keeps eating this shit up…
FFS…
YCombinator: “And here’s why that’s a good thing”
No, you stupid techie fucks, decreased choice and freedom is not a “good thing…
The fuck is happening? It’s like the “normal” internet has just become a bunch of clapping seals who lap up whatever bullshit the tech companies and bloggers feed them, and then this somehow filters down to normal conversations…
I sometimes have to remind myself that I am not the crazy one, for thinking this is not ok…
Come now.
Does Linux have good UX design yet or is Git still indicative of the Linux ecosystem's approach to users?
Desktop Lunix is 100 different UX designs on top of 1000 semi-functional desktop OSs composed of 10000 pieces of software connected together like spaghetti.
Finally, somebody calling this shit out on Linux users other than me, don't get me started on software compatibility otherwise I would have happily switched to Linux ages ago. It's going to be easier for autists to find a way to fuck with and possibly block Windows 11's spying than it is for me to install New Vegas on a Linux machine.
What's needed is for the Linux community to come up with a linux distro I would call 'normie OS' or something like that. Specifically design it for people like me who don't want to jump through all of the compatibility hoops and no I don't want to use the fucking terminal for everything like it's the 90's and I'm on a DOS machine all over again.
The Linux autists just don't understand the concept of user friendliness which is why their comments on how to use Linux are almost always incredibly unhelpful the socially awkward muppets and they often get mad when you have the audacity to point this all out as an end user giving genuine feedback.
Also, the joke is many of them admit to doing dual boots with Windows, so really this is just them admitting that the problems are there without admitting to it when they offer that as a solution. I'd rather have one OS installed for the sake of simplicity. If these problems just got fixed, I would be happy, but they won't be because too many in the Linux community have their heads up their arses. Say what you will about Linus but he pointed all this out when he tried PoP!OS for the first time and got an extremely bitchy response from the dev.
I've got five bucks that says all it takes is a quick registry hack that's all of about three lines of Powershell that any idiot can run.
Failing that my overall backup plan is to have all my important shit on a Linux machine so any potential backdoor takeover on my gaming machine can be wiped immediately or they won't be able to do anything too damaging. I already have multiple backups of my work generally to begin with but a second PC would make me feel that much more secure.
The problem is, your average normie expects the computer to work out of the box. And that will in 99.99% of cases be the latest version of Windows with the web browser and app store installed and ready to go with the prospect of installing Microsoft Office or maybe proprietary software that is used in their workplace. If they have to download an image to burn to a USB stick, it's already too complicated. Never mind getting to the prospect of dual booting or partitioning the hard drive. They won't be inclined to switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. And the chances of a computer from a mainstream store being pre-installed with Linux, a web browser and an app store is zero. Because Windows has a monopoly, everyone expects Windows and manufacturers will only install Windows.
The solution isn't going to be Apple's Mac OS either because they will eventually go the same way, just with a much higher price tag.
I agree and that's exactly part of the problem Linux users don't understand, at the same time though, I do feel I have to criticise Linux users who look at computers from the opposite end of the spectrum and seem to think it's a given you have to endlessly browse tutorials and search up shady looking github accounts for fixes to things that can be done so much simpler if I just install windows and ignore Linux.
For what it's worth with my own background, I'm not some retarded normie who can barely understand how a file browser works and is frightened of the concept of building my own PC. I've been using them since I was a child but I do think Linux users need to get this drilled into their heads from someone who's earnestly tried both with an open mind. I type out code on a daily basis now, the last thing I need is an absolute headache of a system that requires endless troubleshooting to do the most basic tasks if I want to just chill and play some games or watch anime.
This is the biggest obstacle to Linux mass adoption which is why advocate for a normie distro that's as easy to use as normies would want. Leave the autist distros to the autists if that's what they want, I'd love to open source everything for my PC, but the software just isn't there yet, at least I have gone open source with all my work related stuff so that's something and it's a million times better than the shit you have to pay for too.
The average normie uses their desktop computer as a bootloader for a web browser.
Christ, you would think that there would be a combination that's functional for those of us who are decently tech literate but not fucking autists.
The problem is making it compatible for every windows program is not as easy as people might think.
A game designed for linux, will work fine on linux, but will fail horribly on windows (almost assuredly). A game designed for windows, will work fine on windows, but will probably fail on linux.
The problem is everything is designed to work with windows, and until that changes, there is pretty much nothing to autists can do except screech at those continuing to design things for windows.
I remember reading about this and I think it was even a game dev that brought up this exact point. It's simply a matter of adoption rate statistics and ratio of cost vs benefit. I've forgotten what the exact statistic was but the dev was making a perfectly valid point that Linux users are in an absolute minority of userbase but make up the majority of bug reports and tech problems for their game.
Given this why would you waste time as a fairly big dev constantly have to get the game to work for a userbase that's frankly, not often all that grateful in the first place? I have to point out even this thread the Linux autists are being screechy and annoying over the valid points being brought up.
Until this attitude in the Linux community changes, the distros won't change and therefore Microsoft will keep winning. Being a game dev I'm lucky in that I've got Godot to do cross platform support but if I were a money man at these places I'd probably be doing the same maths on Linux from a practicality standpoint and it's just a fact that I'd be better off supporting Windows and Mac only than dealing with the absolute compatibility shitshow that is Linux. I want to support Linux though, for the sake of cross platform support and getting people freed from Microsoft, but boy are there a lack of incentives to do so.
By the way, this is a very similar problem with alt-tech where there isn't that much of an incentive for creators to make the switch yet, but at least with alt-tech it's extremely easy to get into using it compared to Linux because they devs have thought ahead on user friendliness.
So every bit the mess it was when I last tried it back in 2007 with no improvement whatsoever.
Yes. It’s just as bad. I use Mac and Linux exclusively. Linux is a shitshow, no matter the distribution.
It's significantly better than it was in 2007 but nowhere near as good as Windows/Android/iOS and never will be.
This is approximately the same line that was being fed to me back in 2007 when Ubuntu was supposed to be the distro that finally made Linux compete with with the Windows desktop experience.
Spoilers: It did not.
Yes, that's what the second part of my one sentence post said.
And Windows isn't?
Windows works, you can bitch about the back end all you want but the fact is it's a breeze to use compared to Linux. I don't want to be forced to defend Microsoft but the Linux users leave me no choice lol.
It's only "easy" to use because of prior knowledge of UI patterns that almost everyone has thanks to Windows' historical market share. It's not naturally intuitive. I have seen lifelong Apple users (before OSX) that were completely lost on a Windows PC until they got used to it.
Obviously I'm not defending any particular Linux DE here, but I haven't done any research on them either.
I have never, ever been in a position where unplugging a USB device bricked my Windows installation. Meanwhile, if a USB storage device on my laptop running Mint gets unplugged without being dismounted (which happens, it's a laptop), I better start backing shit up because that installation is now ruined. Next time I try to boot, it just won't.
When I tell Linux creatures this story, they act like I'm just making shit up, or I must just be retarded, as if it's my first time using a computer and I haven't extensively tested this for my own sake. That Linux has real issues is beyond them.
Yep I completely feel you, my favourite thing I encountered was that when I tried connecting to the internet via my generic wireless adapter on my PC which works fine on Windows it simply wouldn't detect the hardware. Since I was dealing with house renovation at the time, I didn't have the proper wired internet setup I needed, so Linux made the decision for me that I had to use Windows. Oh and if anyone was wondering, I tried Ubuntu and Linux mint which are supposed to be some of the most properly supported distros out there.
What are you doing at the time? Saying "when a USB gets unplugged, my installation is ruined" is not enough information to go off of.
Seriously, you think people would save the shit about "relearning how to use an OS" when Windows changes shit in every mainline release. Remember how Windows 8 removed the start menu and replaced it with that fucking tiles bullshit? Now you have Windows 11 centering your icons in the task bar instead of having them left-justified. "Oh, but it's only one thing you have to change". Oh, but I thought that Windows "works out of the box". Every single excuse people make to defend Windows is the words of a battered house wife: "You don't know him like I know him! I can't live without him! I can fix him! He loooooooooves me!"
No one comes out of the womb knowing how to drive a car, do basic math, or read basic words.
You are pretty much the very definition of the sort of Linux autist that I've been writing about in this thread. When people point out legit tech problems with Linux, you deflect and attack the users, then you wonder why Windows has such a high adoption rate and people refuse to make the switch, get a grip honestly.
I bet you're one of those 'Linux users' that dual boots windows regardless of how much you claim to hate Microsoft.
I'm far more hostile about the changes they're making to the administrative tool set. If I weren't already balls deep in Powershell the constant reshuffling of all the admin interfaces would make me shit a brick.
Literally everyone says Windows works until you have to do anything more basic than open a web browser. Popular Linux distros literally come with a graphical software manager that allows you to install programs without even opening a web browser. You're telling me that opening a Software Manager and clicking download is easier than having to find the webpage for the program, find the executable, download the executable, run the executable, and sometime have to restart your entire operating system?
Windows 11 literally gets on stage talking about how "no one else" has done fucking window tiling and acts like adding tabs to browsers is a big deal. Meanwhile, Linux DEs have had that shit for years. They even allow you to open files and folders with a single click. Can't wait for Microsoft to steal that so everyone can blast fucking rope about "how well made Windows is, you goys!"
The other (increasing) issue with Linux is that a lot of the distros (along with other open source projects) is getting taken over by the Woke crowd. openSUSE, for example, recently had a chunk of their mailing list chewing a guy out for asking why a rainbow icon was needed for the upcoming month of degeneracy, and one of the board members literally said people who don't like rainbow flags are rotten flesh who need to be cut out
Microsoft collecting all my data is bad. But at least Microsoft just wants my money, not my head.
Phew, boy am I glad I didn't install Windows 11. I thought Windows 10 was bad but SHEESH, 11 is a nightmare. What's next? Will Windows 12 only allow you to open websites, apps and files that it deems acceptable? Hell, will it delete your files if it finds them to be harmful to the LGBTBBQ?
Oh you know that will be coming, when they pull shit like that, that's probably when I will finally be forced onto Linux. I was twitchy enough when JSON got compromised by that Ukrainian activist and it affected discord and Unity.
It won't because I use Linux, bitch. Time for modded Skyrim! 😂
At this point if you're still using windows you kind of deserve to be fucked around with by Bill Gates.
Bro, I have a life, I aint got time to learn any other OS. Some Elon-esque autist needs to make a privacy focused competitor. They'd make millions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_47_CFR_Part_15
There's a few hurdles in the way.
Yea I figured
Yeah, how dare you be expected to learn a skill! That takes away precious hours away from watching Soyflix and eating bugs!
You don't been to be "some kind of autist" to use Linux. You just need to stop being lazy and making excuses for consuming the goy slop.
The amount of fucking copium from people telling me why they need a proprietary operating system from a company feeding them ads through their file manager for the sole purpose of either browsing their data harvesting social media or live service games with anticheat that doesn't work so they can spend $20 on a single skin is unfuckingreal.