CCleaner v5.45 Introduces Data Collection with No Way to Opt-Out
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I use every OS under the sun for various aspects of my life. Linux is not a desktop OS.
Please pick stuff that is actually not available on Linux if you do those kind of lists. AMD is providing FLOSS drivers to the Linux kernel and mesa for years now.
For RAW conversion, RAW therapee is available, which is considered superior to many proprietary converters, demosaicers. While it cannot compete with C1 or LR, there's darktable (and I like its RAW conversion more). I have not tried the HDR tools yet, but I think they're promising.
I'm not knowledgable in video editing, and don't work in a color-managed environment, so I'm skipping these.
For office applications, Using Office is your choice. I'm using LibreOffice for a long time on Mac and Linux, even for professional situations. It served me well, and serving well. It's also playing fairly well with latest Office formats, at least with the files I encounter.
There were times when ATI/AMD support was bad, really bad, hardware damaging bad. I personally experienced some of those and reported directly them to ATI. There were times ATI/AMD literally had no video playback support via official drivers, but they're stories of past. AMD is a company which re-designed its silicon to provide better and more complete Linux support. ATI/AMD is not a company which is ignorant of Linux anymore.
Case in point ccleaner: there are many alternatives. Try winutilities.
This was briefly true in the mid-2000s, but this is no longer the case. PC is resurgent and pretty much every non-Japanese, non-first party Sony/Nintendo game comes to Windows now, and it usually plays pretty well. Even the Japanese publishers are starting to release more and more on PC (see Sega).
Edit: Humble Bundle, 84 Linux games. I don't know how to filter to only "games" to get a total though.
No, it just proves there's no market for people who obsess over shitty games. There are plenty of good games with native linux support (e.g. Civ 5, Mount & Blade, Crusader Kings 2, etc etc).
To be clear, there's a bunch of great games which don't support Linux, but a good amount of non-indie games actually do.
10 years ago you might have been right, but you are dead wrong today.
PlayStation 4 runs a Unix (BSD derivative), Xbox One runs Windows, and Switch runs a proprietary OS (Horizon, a microkernel OS heavily based off that of the 3DS).
And if you really wanted to compare it to Android/ChromeOS, consider that Windows is still $120-200 for a license and still silently tracks out of the box. That just doesn't seem right. How much more do I need to pay to turn off being tracked?
In fact in some stores that sell computers with FreeDos or Linux, the models tend to be more expensive than those with Windows.
ChromeOS by being a browser based OS, means all applications run in someone else's computer, no way to turn tracking off other than not using ChromeOS at all.
Likewise, what each Android model allows to turn off and what gets tracked depends pretty much on how each OEM has customized their Android version.
More of a privacy thing than a space-saving thing, really.
Perhaps the negative response will encourage the developers to add a working option to disable the telemetry. For now, the previous version without data collection (v5.44) is still available on the file hosting site FileHippo. [1]
Yes, Windows (7, 8, 10) have some curious folders that tend to fill up with something, like winsxs and Installers, but you can't just delete stuff there anyway, it is needed by OS, so malware like CCleaner won't help there.
Certainly use older versions of CrapCleaner, prior to them getting malicious code installed. I don't have links to that incident, but you can find it.
*Unsure of versioning, one that came before Avast bought Piriform. Additionally, all Piriform products will most likely follow suit... Defraggler, Recuva, Speccy etc.