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9 monthsFor the folks saying install Linux keep in mind you can indirectly be captured by this feature.
For example if you’re playing an online video game you’ll be captured or your chat messages in your messaging app.
Of course, the idea is that there’s less risk of that the more people switch.
- 9 months
You can’t convince 99% of windows users to switch, the real solution is done via legislation. The force of a government is more powerful any boycotts you can muster. (For example: European Union has been passing a regulations on right to repair, do privacy laws next)
- Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Legislation is a poor way to force populations into changing away from something they choose to do/use. As the saying goes “It’s hard to talk someone out of something they weren’t talked into”.
Example: See France or Somalia
That’s pretty easily avoidable, too. Don’t play online games, or talk to people. That’s what I do.
- NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish9 months
Just switch to Linux.
This is like saying “put some salve on the wrists where the shackles are binding you”. For fucks sake just walk away from the abusive computing relationship.
- the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Setting aside for the moment that it is a much better idea to just stop using windows. One of Microsofts arguments for why you shouldn’t continue using Windows 10 is because it will stop being updated and will soon be insecure and get inundated with malware, adware, spyware ect. But Windows 11 already comes preinstalled with all of that so what difference does it make?
I use Shutup10 on my Windows partition.
Good control over copilot and any other Wndows nastiness.
Run it after every Windows update. MS loves sneakily re-enabling some settings.
Other comments predicting the Linux drones being unhelpful to users looking for answers wasn’t wrong.
Damn. Predictable too.
- mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Linux is great and all and I use it on several of my machines.
And if lay person just needs a computer to do basic things, internet, social media, stream, watch multimedia and the like it’s a great system. I have it on my multimedia PC we use only for entertainment consumption and my grammas laptop where she only watches streaming videos on.
But if someone needs it for anything else, graphic design gaming productivity development it’s much, much more difficult to use. I’m not saying it’s impossible but it’s much harder than just installing an exe on Windows and calling it a day.
And that’s unfortunately the catch with Linux is that it’s significantly less convenient to use than Windows.
For me personally when Windows 10 reaches its end of life I’m going to have to dule boot for regular computer usage to Linux and for gaming on windows 11. Something I really don’t want to do because all I want to do is just turn my computer onand be able to use it I don’t want to switch between operating systems but I realize that Windows 11 will be a privacy nightmare.
You do realize that most Steam games now work on the next natively correct? It’s true, not all do, but a lot of them do.
- 9 months
Watch as the Linux drones swarm in to drown out people seeking actual answers.
The one thing keeping me from going all-in on Linux is the users being insufferable.
- Tamo240@programming.devEnglish9 months
You’re seeing insufferable people who also happen to use Linux, as insufferable people also like to be early adopters so they can say they are different and therefore better.
There are plenty of super helpful people in the community, and Linux is well past the early adopter phase. The transition from Windows is smoother than it has ever been.
- Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish9 months
Man they must really hate the mass uptake. Makes them less special with every install.
(I keed, we all know they identity politic with the distros instead)
“How to disable this opt in feature”: “don’t turn it on”
I get that Lemmy is a bastion for M$ hate but FUD articles get annoying.
Microsoft’s idea of consent:
Do you want to turn on Recall?
- Yes
- Maybe Later
- SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish9 months
Watching Windows gets worse and worse is a lot more fun when you don’t have to use it. I use Mint btw.
- Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish9 months
LMDE here. No ragrets. Mint features, Debian stability, and none of the Canonical weirdness.
- N3Cr0@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Does the prnhub trick still work? Recall detecting nudity on the screen and stop capturing.
- dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish9 months
I wish it were that easy. I’m pretty tech literate and I’ve had Linux installed on and off since the late 1990’s. I’m running fedora desktop on a dual boot machine that also has windows 10. The PC will run windows 11 but just like everyone else I’m not excited to upgrade.
But I still have to hop over to windows to do things. I know it’s a chicken and egg thing, but Linux just needs to get over the hump if ease of use and app availability.
Having to switch from. App1 to app1 that boat do say, CAD, is hard. It’s a learning curve. And add that learning curve into also switching to Linux and it’s overwhelming.
I actually got my dad on fedora, and he went all in and set it up, and worked quite diligently to get everything working for how he used his computer. He did this because his PC was fine but not windows 11 compatible. End the end there were just too many things that he struggled with and he broke down and bought a new PC that came with 11. One of the big issues he had was with documents. Syncing documents that he was editing.
He was OK relearning a new Libre Office but it was syncing it back to a Google drive or something that ultimately did not work for him. (I can’t remember exactly what he was doing).
He ran with Fedora for a couple months before giving up
Step 412: realize that there is no REAL alternative to Excel.
LibreOffice Calc isn’t good enough? I rarely use it so I have no idea.
