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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 5 days ago

Well.. at least at home you can run Linux. That's a start. And otherwise try to switch or create your own business. It seems the latter is the only option to fully get rid of Windows, since soon companies will move to Windows 11 with Windows Recall and other AI bs. No thanks, I'm out.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Any company worth anything will keep recall disabled. Obviously, with Microsoft, it will get "accidentally" activated in an update, so admins will have to play whack a mole, but nobody should enable that malware when it's released.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 5 days ago

I agree. Fun fact: You can't uninstall Microsoft Recall.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Everything about it is so bad. It's like someone woke up one day and thought, what is the legally worst piece of software I can make and force in people?

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 5 days ago

Users of Microsoft accepted more and more. And slowly we are all in this situation (if you would still use Windows). Similar to the The Boiling Frog Syndrome. Get out now, while you still can. Try to search for alternatives. You have been warned.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I went cold turkey to Linux this past December. Best choice I've ever made. I am still stuck on Windows for work and I assist friends and family with their stuff, but otherwise I'm happily out of the system.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 5 days ago

Great nice to hear! Which distro did you choice (No wrong answers)? Do you still need help or have questions or issues?

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I jumped right in the deep end with Arch. I've been a sys admin for about a decade and in IT for another 5 years, so I'm good with computers, but more importantly, I'm good at searching for and finding solutions to my problems. It was a bit rocky for the first setup, but been mostly smooth sailing since Jan or Feb. I reformatted to change to btrfs and snapper after the first month or two.

I still don't know a lot about how Linux works or where any of the config files are, but I'm learning. I'm all on the bandwagon.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 days ago

Luckily for you Arch has the best wiki pages out there for documentation purposes. If you have any questions regarding Linux or you want to know something, just ask.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 4 days ago

Oh that's no accident, nor do your words go far enough, unfortunately, bc they are doing stuff now that actually was fully illegal, back when the US government was more functional and pursued antitrust laws against Microsoft. :-(

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