Every time I use windows I feel sick, confused and annoyed.
The first thing it asks you on install is to choose how much data you want to give up for advertising and diagnostics. Not whether you want to send any, just how much, with the least being "minimal".
The constant barrage of ads, mandatory online connections, and corporate integrations disgusts me, and slows me down, I can't ignore them I have to decline and then investigate how to turn them off.
The number of hoops I have to jump through just to get a usable operating system is absurd, such as editing the registry so the file search shows files and not bing results, having to open Edge and ignore 5 requests to sign-in so I can download a real browser, while also ignoring 5 patronising and manipulative attempts to deter me from switching from Edge.
Then I have to download a bunch of third party proprietary drivers just to use my GPU properly, all of which need me to click through 5 windows to complete the install else I'll accidentally install the trial for some spyware antivirus or end up enabling enough analytics to recreate my personality as an AI, which will naturally be used to advertise to my own mother.
I then spend 15 minutes going through the privacy settings checking and disabling various additional data collection features that weren't mentioned in the setup because this isn't my computer it's Microsoft's and they deserve access to it.
Then I have to consider how much more effort I want to spend making windows mine, so I open up Group Policy and enforce several enterprise only settings that actually disables data collection entirely, disables tips, feedback surveys, "experiences" and other such garbage no one wants, knowing in despair more will be added in a new update and I'll have to check everything again. All of which is only available of you have Windows Pro because we couldn't allow just any old grunt full access to their own computer, instead we'll paywall it behind $150, or you can buy a dodgy key on G2A for $10 or hell run that massgrave thing and pirate your copy which btw is 100% malware and you should not run dodgy scripts off the internet especially ones so blatantly obfuscated and designed to be easily switched out to any script the highest bidder asks for.
Windows is user hostile, it's designed to exploit you, to squeeze you hard of as much cash and data that it can find. Windows is not popular because its good, but because Microsoft have a monopoly on the market, because so much software is designed to run on it, which makes a loop of parasiticsm, because it's there in front of you and you don't know any better (not your fault).
I don't use Linux as a joke, or a compromise, or as a struggle, or just for the moral high-ground. I use it because it's actually really good, I watch anime, i play games, i write emails, i watch youtube, i code (or try to), i manage servers, i send cat pictures to my grandma, i organise files, i do whatever the fuck i want and its between me and me and no one else and it just works, it's worth customising, it does what I ask and it does it quickly, it doesn't feel like I'm renting my computer, it doesn't hide things or patronise me, it doesn't ask me to spend money, or buy a subscription, it doesn't try to manipulate or gaslight me, it doesn't misunderstand the concept of consent, it doesn't randomly update and break itself, and it absofuckinglutely doesn't have the audacity of telling me to "license" it for the privilege of using a glorified digital billboard.
If you want your computer to feel like an abusive relationship, constantly working to undermine you, getting slower and slower while taking away features and replacing them with things you don't want, recording eveything you're doing and sharing it with Daddy Microsoft whike asking for money for that privilege, just because it's familiar to you, because it runs the software you grew up with, because it runs Valorant and League or some 30 year old enterprise centrifuge in your nuclear fuel refinement facility then that's fine. That's your perogative.
But Linux does work, and it works well. If you put in the effort to learn something new, (and it's not much effort, it's less than using the registry or policy editor), then in the long term everything gets so much easier, and the endless stream of bullshit Microsoft pumps out won't affect you.
I run Ubuntu BTW, LTS, with uncustomised Gnome and FireFox in a snap.
#microsoft #windows #privacy #linux
windows
https://www.bright.cn/blog/how-tos/set-up-proxy-in-windows-11
https://www.kunyun-tech.com/2025/03/11/windows-set-proxy/
你参考这2篇文章，手工检查你的代理设置是什么样的。最好截图发出了给大家看看。你不开特殊软件就上不了网，大概率是windows更新把原先的代理设置搞坏了
如果不是系统代理设置坏了，可能是DNS设置坏了。修改DNS设置请参考这篇文章
https://baiyunju.cc/11885
如果你的问题解决了，请留言回复，告诉大家你是怎么处理的。其他人遇到同类型问题也可以参考你的成功经验。
#windows #安全更新 #BUG #代理 #proxy #vpn #dns
RE: https://c7.io/@blueglass/114435460184484906
I want to give #Mastodon a proper go this time, but it's hard to connect with people when no-one follows you, and hashtags only get you so far. 😞
So, if you like one of the hashtags below, please consider following me, and if you do, I'll follow you back! Thank you. 💗
#retrocomputing #msdos #windows #vintagecomputing #ai #lego #scifi #amiga #linux #doctorwho #drwho #startrek #starwars #space #uk #lgbtq #3dprinting #woodworking #discworld #reading
So why is Microsoft insisting on pushing out a feature it is very clear users just do not want? What is the point of it? It just does not make any sense. Recall makes no sense. It is one of rather many functions that Microsoft wants to force people into using.
Personally I also do not want Copilot on my computer and the idea that there can be a key on my keyboard that I can press that will enable by mistake it is not what I would think most people want.
I believe that there should be a very clear line between what is on your computer and what is in the cloud. Forcing people to log into a Microsoft online account to use their computer is crazy. Having people mistakenly enabling OneDrive is another disaster.
I guess this is all a great opportunity for Linux.
I know it's a big lift, but if you're running Windows 10, it's a great time to try out a desktop version of Linux... because you're going to have to replace that machine anyway (or risk it being another machine on some hacker's massive DDoS-for-hire farm). Alternately, it's an opportunity for those of us who are not handcuffed by Microsoft to pick up free, highly capable machines for free 😉 (and load them with Linux).
Microsoft still has a massive Windows 10 problem - and there's no easy way out
"...Hundreds of millions of PCs will be running Windows 10 when the end-of-support date rolls around. Yikes...most Windows 10 editions -- Home, Pro, Pro Workstation, Enterprise, and Education -- will reach their end-of-support date on Oct. 14, 2025...."
Regulation works. You can thank the @EUCommission for some important Windows changes, where Edge will nag you less.
I wish these were worldwide.
Still needs to be easier for users to set their preferred default browser. It used to be that the browser could ask you and if you allowed it, it would be set as default. It seems like you still have to go into the settings to change this.
https://www.theverge.com/news/678350/microsoft-dma-windows-10-11-bing-edge
Some mood lighting for #FensterFreitag.
#photography #urbanphotography #windows #WindowFriday #texture #colors #color #blue #red #nyc #brooklyn
My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows … to see how it goes | Tom's Hardware
Great review of @Vivaldi :
”Para todos quando vêem notícias horríveis de privacidade sobre a Microsoft respondendo com:
"Eu não me importo, eu uso Linux"
Claro que sim. Mas será que a sua clínica médica faz? Seu terapeuta faz isso? Seu membro da família digitando um e-mail pessoal para você no Word antes de enviá-lo também?
Este é um problema sistêmico.
Você não pode proteger seus próprios dados apenas usando o #Linux você mesmo. Você também deve exigir regulamentos e fiscalização mais fortes para obrigar as organizações ao redor a proteger seus dados também.
#Privacidade #Microsoft” #Windows
@Em0nM4stodon https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/113539927769896659
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📈 Boom di Linux in Europa!
Secondo Statcounter, nel solo ultimo anno Linux è passato dal 2,84% al 5,21% del mercato desktop europeo: un balzo dell’83,45%!
Per anni le percentuali erano rimaste sotto il 3%, ma stavolta è diverso: qualcosa si muove davvero.
Leggi di più: https://blazetrends.com/unprecedented-linux-growth-in-europe-amid-windows-10-end-of-life/?fsp_sid=61142
Complice il fine vita di Windows 10, sempre più persone stanno abbandonando Windows 🎉
Pubblicato su FediLUG Italia: @linux
#BillGates and #LinusTorvalds just met each other for the first time
(The other two are Mark Russinovich and Dave Cutler)
It's funny that the #CloudStrike blunder might have indirectly contributed to #Linux #game (anti-cheat) compatibility, with people like #RiotGames saying that they will follow #Microsoft/#Windows 's lead/security recommendations - even if it means their anti-cheat solution receding from the kernel space. #EA would probably follow suit too.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/sambowne/statuses/114750528358765934
Pretty great to see this (via @gombang)
Seems like #Linux has seen some significant (300%) growth since 2021. In that time, I've gone from using just #Windows + #ChromeOS to now running Linux (#Mint + #Ubuntu Cinnamon) my laptops.
https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/
☀️ Summer is here 🚀 and so is the new release of the OpenAndroidInstaller v0.5.5-beta ☀️
Fresh bits:
- Fixed #Windows issues
- Transparent device pics ✨
- Dropped old driver recs
- NEW DEVICES: moto g5s (montana) & moto g5 plus (potter) - thanks @SirRGB
Grab it 👉 https://github.com/openandroidinstaller-dev/openandroidinstaller/releases/tag/v0.5.5-beta
#OpenAndroidInstaller #Android #FOSS #Linux #Motorola #CustomROM
