Listen, telling other members of a privacy community on lemmy to "just switch to Linux bro" is an enormous waste of time. What this problem needs is outreach beyond tech communities. Ever see those basic ass shorts on Facebook or whatever for "top 7 tips and tricks for becoming an Excel master"? That's the stupid shit this problem needs. Some broccoli haired tiktoker needs to get in front of people and show them that Linux is not scary. That people have a third option aside from Windows and Mac.

Then, when increasing groups of confused people filter into these threads asking how to uninstall an app, we need to be fucking nice and not admonish them for being new. Lead them through the DE, not CLI. Seriously, want to break 5-6% of OS marketshare? Hold people's hand through it.

After that, then maybe...just maybe, the likes of Autodesk and Adobe will perk up and start supporting Linux.

This is what forced me onto Linux for the first time, and permanently.

It's partly great, mostly fine, and 10% of the time god damn fucking annoying. Mostly having to learn the fucking game of thrones factions of installing things.

But I don't feel like there's a piece of shit company in my computer trying to completely ruin it, so it's a win. The positives outweigh the negatives, even as someone who wasn't really into the idea of switching.

But even if it was half as good, it would still be an improvement, given Microsoft destroying itself.

I'm reading this on a Microsoft Surface that I flashed with Linux Mint. Quite satisfying!

Message to Microsoft:🖕

Windows is malware. If you give the slightest shit about your privacy, switch ASAP

Took this crap off my computer and installed Fedora as my daily. If I need to run Windows, I'll run it in a VM.

Recall the time when Windows came on a DVD, had no Microsoft account option on install, no ads in settings nor in the startup menu, no AI slop.

It was still shit, but it feels shittier now, and harder to setup and configure in a way that's bearable.

Former Win10 user here, also a former MS employee, now on Mint. I never even heard of Recall but holy crap on a cracker, Microsoft - seriously? SERIOUSLY?

You guys have absolutely lost your fucking minds. My advice is to make Microsoft great again by quitting and forming a bunch of startups, where you can work on innovations that are actually good and useful. For the sake of your own sanity.

Well this news helped motivate me to overwrite my Windows 10 install with Linux Mint as of yesterday. So far so good.

Even if Copilot was suspended, the idea was put into the heads of managers and executives. My work laptop current has three applications constantly locking files as they track everything I do and every file that gets touched and upload it all to the servers. Git now takes a ridiculous amount of time to check in and push files since it creates tons of small changes to the cached files that a the tracking applications block further changes or uploads until they can record the information. It takes about 30 seconds to a minute to check in a single small file. Something that used to take a second or two at most. Worst part is if I'm in a WebEx meeting, the fighting over caches in it and git and any other processes,often causes deadlocks that crash the machine. I'm constantly apologizing for being late for meetings because the laptop crashed and had to reboot. It's gotten to the point that they finally gave me a much faster laptop rather than just excluding cache and git folders and such from the tracking because the people who want literally everything tracked don't know what cache or git is, much less how much useless data they're gathering or how the AI that analyzes it all is going yo get distracted by the garbage and not find any useful data anyway. Microsoft needs to get in the game to push the others back out.

Hey copilot - what was that website I found with the sweet ass interracial stepsibling fuckin? You know the one where that sis's ass popped just the right way? Not the one with the first-cousins. I gotta draw the line somewhere. I mean, that was ALSO great porn but I have pre-postnut clarity here and that kind of shit just aint what I need right now.

I wouldn't be surprised if they get a class action suit over security/data violations.

Is this legal in EU? I mean not the tool itself but just enabling it by default.

I'm certain this can be disabled in windows at any moment as without it loads and loads of criminal evidence would be available for discovery and litigation against the wealthiest people and businesses across the world.

A real fear is being a worker in a world with micromanagers inspecting your workweek, 3 second snapshots at a time.

Unfortunately most users don't care about privacy, they only move then (subscriptions) prices rises

I just want to tip my fellow colleagues that need to use windows for their job (and also maybe have invested thousands in pc games).

This is my favorite tool for debloating and uncrappifying and more. If you have others please reply with yours. 😊

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

Disable Recall with these instructions:

https://oracle-base.com/blog/2024/11/10/windows-recall-how-to-disable-spy-mode/