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Windows 10 won’t take screenshots of everything I do on my computer, sooooooooooo
Oh its worse than just screenshots. They’re screenshotting, then they ocr the screenshot and store any text in a highly compressed searchable database.
But it does scan everything you put on your computer and sends it to microsoft
Neither will Windows 11 when I turn that feature off.
Until they turn it back on again during the next automatic update.
Until it is smuggled back in by an inconspicuous monthly security update!
Don’t try to bring reason to an anti-Microsoft circlejerk
Neither.
laughs in penguin
—which one do you like better, beef or pork?
—umm, have you tried being vegan?vegans got a bad rap but they were never as likely to show up in every conversation uninvited as Linux users or weed smokers.
I’ve always wanted to try that distro just because of the mascot.
I use Arch
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I USE ARCH BTW
Windows 10 is usable, so linux, I choose linux.
Anyone who thinks Windows 10 is better: Have you tried installing the current version recently? There’s like a dozen screens full of bullshit where you have to click “maybe later” or “yes, I want the limited experience”, while Windows hits you with messages such as “setting up some stuff” or “relax and let us take care of everything”.
Then after installation you have to go through all the settings and deny, deny, deny some more.
Hide the annoying mouseover “news”, the search field, remove Edge from desktop, taskbar, standard app settings and favorites, …Shit, forgot to install updates first.
So you update. Now the privacy settings are changed again, Edge is back everywhere (it’s your standard browser again), “news” are back, the search field is back. But only after you clicked through the blue screen asking you all the questions from the installation again.
Not to mention the urgent security notifications telling you you’ll lose all your data if you don’t set up OneDrive and your PC isn’t safe without an MS account…I think windows 10 is better than windows 11, absolutely.
Have I tried installing the most recent version recently? Fuck no. I hate windows. Last time I installed it, it was for work and it was a server OS. That doesn’t change the reality of differences between 10 and 11.
However, your complaints apply to Win 10 and 11 equally.
Are you saying windows 11 somehow isn’t a similar horror show with even more privacy invasion?
no
Anyone who thinks Windows 10 is better
The fundamental difference between 10 and 11 is that in 10 I still remember how to turn off all these features while in 11 its that much more difficult to do so.
Ah, yes. Windows 11 is better because since 11 came out MS made 10 worse.
11 isnt even a decent sidegrade, its just a controlgrab trying to take away what little self definition a user has.
Hey! HEY! I resent that remark - yeah, sure, maybe it is exactly that, BUT it is also at least in equal parts an attempt to shove ads down the throats of customers who are rendered helpless to resist by the factor you mentioned.
Agreed. Or A greed, if you examine microsloths motivations
Windows 10 is as bad as windows 11. The problems with windows run so deep in the Microsoft design philosophy that they infect everything Microsoft touches.
I’d say 10 doesn’t literally take screenshots of your actions every second but would anyone be surprised if it did?
100% true
It took me years to get my win10 install to a point that I was somewhat happy with it. I’ve lost track of how many registry edits i’ve had to do just to disable a feature I didn’t want, or enable a feature microsoft wanted to take away from me. The numerous utilities I’ve had to download just to have functionality that was built into windows back in 7 or xp. I literally don’t remember all the things I’ve had to do, and I refuse to do it again. Now microsoft wants to take away the entire operating system? No.
I just installed linux yesterday. It is a royal pain in my ass, as several design choices are just different from what I’m used to (middle click is paste? what the hell?). However, there’s no ads in the start menu. Text I type into the start menu doesn’t get sent to an online search engine. There’s no proto-ai garbage. Oh, and it didn’t cost $200 like my win10 key did.
It’s going to take me a week to set up, as I have tons of data on many ntfs drives that I need to be able to do anything productive, and they’re all “read only” because I think windows knows I have a linux install and now blue-screens every time I try to shut it down. (This is a problem because ntfs drives get set to read only if windows doesn’t shut down cleanly).
FYI, you have 3 clipboards in X11. You have your standard clipboard usually used with Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, like in Windows. You also have your primary clipboard, which copies any text you highlight and can be pasted with middle mouse button. The secondary clipboard is typically not used. If you don’t like the middle mouse paste, stick to the way you are used to. I learnt to make use of the primary clipboard and find that I always realise just how much I miss it when I need to use a windows system.
oh deer lord, that’s even worse than I thought. It’s been less than a week, and it’s already become the bane of my existence. middle click pastes highlighted text?! I need to figure out how to disable this.
Starting to think 8.1 might be the most viable windows version…
I actually really liked it when I used it. It was kind of the windows 7 to eights vista.
Happily on Linux now, tho.
My gaming PC is sticking with 10 for the foreseeable future, it’s my only windows machine and that’s because it’s a beatsaber and fusion360 machine and I don’t want to be bothered with fixing something when I want to get a workout session in or need to urgently design a part.
P.S. if anyone knows how to get fusion working in wine I’m all ears
Fusion 360 is the ONLY reason why I have a Windows partition still. I haven’t looked very hard, but I did look and didn’t find any ways to run it on Linux without tons of latency or bugs. It is already slow and buggy enough without introducing more.
I play Beat Saber using Steam Link through Linux, so that works just fine.
I havent tried it, and i dont normally recomend snaps but fusion360 is in the snap store.
https://snapcraft.io/install/fusion360/arch
Also searching arch fusion360 (you can replace arch with another distro) gives a few hits that makes me think its possible like this one.
https://github.com/link12765/Fusion-360-Arch-Linux-Script/blob/main/fusion360_install.sh
They all have bugs or latency issues, or at least they did a year ago.
There was a bug causing logins to not work a few months ago I don’t know if a patch went out for it, but I used it for over a year with minimal issues before that
Neat! I will be giving that a go! Having to relearn cad after switching to linux really slowed the use of my 3d printer :(
Funny thing is, I have so much stuff in OneDrive now, it has made transitioning from my PC to another temporary/permanent environment much easier. So…they might actually be helping me move to Linux.
waiting for Windows 11 LTSC, which should be later this year(?)
May I ask is there a reason why you jumping so early? I plan to ride windows 10 ltsc until end or at least as long as most of program works hopeful around 2027.
I’m open to either. It’s just with Win11 LTSC coming out soon, I can compare and choose between them.
I’ll take my Arch, please and thank you
Linux
Windows 7 😆
I do have a Win7 machine still running, it’s a trooper. Doesn’t need anything newer for what it does.
Extended support for security upgrades for Windows 7 ended on Jan. 10, 2023. So “what it does” should probably not include any connectivity to a public network.
At that point you might as well go back to XP. ;)
God I miss Windows 7.
