Microsoft Is Dedicated To Building A Dodgy New Database Of Every Windows 11 User’s Online Behaviors
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/21/microsoft-is-dedicated-to-building-a-dodgy-new-database-of-every-windows-11-users-online-behaviors/
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albert180@piefed.social · 35 pts · 1y
Just switch away from the Garbage on your private computer
https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
Go atomic instead, assuming your needs are relatively limited. Here are the Fedora variants:
That way you don't have to care about what's going on under the hood, you just install your apps as flatpaks and you're off to the races.
railcar@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
Was looking at Silverblue and then found Universal Blue. Much easier: https://universal-blue.org/
pauldrye@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Oh, good lord. Have you met my 82-year old father?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y
He probably only uses a web browser, so as long as you make it look familiar, he probably wouldn't notice.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y
I set up my 80 year old mother with linux
albert180@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1y
Set him up with the KDE Environment. It's quite similar to Windows
reddig33@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
So glad I don’t use Windows anymore. Microsoft has lost the plot.
msage@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
Microsoft never had any different plot, it was always about this, from the very start.
DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Nice of Microsoft to give Linux a popularity boost
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
6% marketshare here we go!
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
And this is why I finally dumped Windows on my personal devices. My work laptop is the only machine I use that still runs Windows, and I literally never touch it at home unless I work from home (extremely rare).
I'm even raising my kids with Linux - the "family computer" (an ancient A1278 Macbook Pro from 2009) they use for homework runs Linux Mint, and does so really well.
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y
That’s one watchlist I will not be on
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
Switch to Linux, be done with microshit
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 7 pts · 1y
sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
Wait... They didn't do this already?
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
!linux@programming.dev is right around the corner!
outrealpha@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 1y
disturbing
outrealpha@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 1y
switching. turned on monitoring no my mac. after i downloaded a binary from the onion no less, it tried loging into apple to report the software name. It must have seen. .dmg They're not getting any better over there.