Hugging Stars

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Telemetry is a useful technology that's abused, like how recommendation feeds eventually turned into hate video broadcasts.

Opt-out telemetry is the only way to reliably get useful data from the silent majority. MS Office menus are better than others because Microsoft actually knows what normal people use. Paste was immediately promoted to be the first big button in the first tab after they sorted through Office 2003 telemetry data and saw the popularity of the feature.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/games · 4 pts · 41d

The Wii or the Wii U. One of a kind experiences along with the golden era of the internet.

on KDE wins · c/linuxmemes · 3 pts · 67d

No way to get reliable numbers without telemetry but KDE's userbase is a lot louder for sure.

All three major enterprise distros use GNOME, none of them officially support KDE.

And on Linux you need higher tech knowledge and more time compared to other platforms due to almost everything being less polished. None of the Linux file managers have views, filtering and grouping features as polished as Explorer for example, so users will spend more time on miscellaneous tasks like managing files and they'll add up.

Now it's at the point where if you treat Linux desktop as something other than a game console or a development platform you're in for a world of pain. Have fun filtering and grouping documents with Dolphin.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/linux · 1 pts · 127d

I don't have 10 year experience but RHEL desktop and server. I used Fedora Copr to rebuild Fedora packages for my desktop, as well as my custom packages.

I have a Windows 7 VM I use when I need something more powerful than GNOME.

You mean tied to IDs or something?

Anything goes, ID is one way to do it.

This thread is acting like this is a slope to systemd distros requiring an ID check, if I’m reading it right.

The post itself is phrased like that for engagement.

They implemented part of the the low level works needed to implement birth date verification. Commercial distros like Ubuntu, RHEL and SteamOS might use it for law compliance. It'll very likely be as easy to bypass as it can be since no one really wants this.

With Windows you simply have much less problems to solve. Normal people don't care about jumping through hoops to create local accounts, they'll just register.

Windows interfaces are designed for easy learning and are backed by real telemetry data from millions of systems, such as ribbon menus. On Linux power users run the show so even blatant violations of basic principles tend to stick since the development version is the shipped version and is what they are used to so UI stability took priority even though it shouldn't been stabilised in the first place.