I wish I was a billion dollar company who gets away with stuff like this. Just generally break people’s systems, add spyware, lie to users, treat them like shit.
All while making even more money and my stocks keep on going up, because AI, Ai, Ai…
Just install Linux, get it over with, more away from the clutches of Microsoft, use a system that is free and easy to work with.
Yeah, Linux is not perfect, nothing is. Might Linux require you in some cases to do some extra work? Maybe. Windows does not? Did you read this post? Did you read the countless other posts where Microsoft makes your life harder on purpose, triest to spy juuuust a little harder on you? Where Microsoft tries to fuck you over, yet again? Where Microsoft for the Nth time purposefully and willfully ignored security threats to save money or face, allowing even the US government to be hacked cuz better for Microsoft?
Seriously, it’s like watching a woman with a best up face defending her husband, he isn’t that bad, or if I leave I will be without this thing I need, omg, what will I do?
Just. Leave. Switch to lonix, and be done with this shit
Yeah I have no clue why people think this is how they deserve to be treated.
I am a Mac user at home. I use windows for work, like most of us. But I keep reading all these articles and thinking, “Boy, I sure hope my company’s IT Dept. is on top of this.”
I use mint on my laptop, steam runs great, but have to keep windows on the desktop because I need to run Ableton, lack of pro audio is the thing that’s holding me from full Linux right now…
Reaper works great on mint. Plus yabridge to use your windows plugins.
Aren’t there alternative file explorers for Windows? Or did support for that kind of thing end with Windows 7?
There’s Tablacus. Opus is supposed to be good too, but I haven’t tried it.
This is what we get for no longer being the paying customer (that and a quasi Monopoly).
Microsoft being Microsoft…
Just generally break people’s systems, add spyware, lie to users, treat them like shit.
Too many people bought that shit. Their own fault for getting ripped another one.
I removed Recall just fine and now my Windows environment is Linux
So, some important context: you can disable Recall still. The only thing you can’t do is delete the files for it.
So it’s another potential attack surface for malware to target, something that Microsoft could enable in an update (so use Group Policy to disable it, they way they give companies with legal requirements to do so properly), and some space on your harddrive wasted.
This is NOT Microsoft requiring people to enable Recall for Explorer to work.
Still an egregious amount of bullshit, but not as much as the headline might lead you to believe.
This is NOT Microsoft requiring people to enable Recall for Explorer to work.
yet ™️
I’m wondering how the dod is going to fix this. I’ll have to look at their stuff files.
“I really would like to switch to Linux, bUT muH gaMEz!”
Like, just get a console or a Steam deck and tell MS to piss off. Until their market share plummets noticeably, they’re going to continue this crap.
Our just play games on Linux. Wine/proton is shockingly good. I’ve never had an issue
I’m gaming just fine on mint. It’s like the old days when I would install something and not be sure if it worked, but so far most things have been working more or less out of the box. Installing and patching mods to final fantasy 7 took a little bit because I wasn’t familiar with the terms being used, but it was a couple hours, not a few days.
You don’t want to play on Linux? Get a steam deck… Which runs on Linux! 😀
Ingenious.
At some point I was spending more time debloating, breaking, reintlling then it took me to learn Linux
I am planning on just disabling windows update medic service and keeping my current version of windows 10 that still allows dual booting to Linux.
Once Valorant stops working on that version I guess I’ll have to just only play deadlock from then on.
Caring about system integrity/security while playing a game that requires a literal rootkit are not compatible
Absolutely agree, that’s why when I saw the patch notes for this latest Microsoft update I was like “They don’t mention why this is dangerous other than Linux can be used by the haxors”. It definitely just sounded like a way to crunch down on Linux use.
And like you said, I already allow Microsoft and riot and probably others I’m not thinking of to just have complete access to my computer so it’s not like I have any privacy, for security I can always check out potential issues myself with my pen testing laptop, so there is literally no benefit and only a ton of downsides to upgrading. So why would I?
This weekend the upgrading and updating ends for good, and I will get my dual boot Linux whether they like it or not.
