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Have you ever tried to disable something that windows insists you use? Like all the telemetry? Just try to stay on top of that. Impossible because you're not in charge of your machine, Microsoft is. You change it, they just change it back. Frustrating.

On Linux? Its yours. Change anything you want.

All arguments of convenience go out the window when you are not in control.

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Recently had enough with windows and gave linux a try. Love it.It’s really good for SW development especially for experimenting and exploring languages. For work I still use windows but as soon as work is over i reboot into linux.

But Im no tipical user, I don’t play games and don’t consume a lot of modern media or crazy new hardware, but do watch some youtube, listen to podcasts and read a lot and linux offers more than what I need. Linux got to a point that installing it is way frictionless. I had some attempts to install linux 15 and then maybe 10 years ago and gave up quickly. Nowadays not only that it runs live off a usb stick, it also installs easily on an existing windows system with a choice of partition of any convenient size.

Also playing with python, racket, chicken scheme plays a whole lot nicer under Linux. I am really thrilled to be on Linux.

That is something I do not care about it enough to dissuade me from the rest of the windows experience. Even accounting for it, the windows experience is still superior to linux for me. I suspect this applies to a big chunk of the population as well who don't care about open source/telemetry etc. If it comes down to it, I can add some rules in the hosts file or run some powershell scripts.

>If it comes down to it, I can add some rules in the hosts file or run some powershell scripts.

Beware of this though, if you really want to remove all the telemetry. Seems like telemetry is deeply ingrained in the OS. Last time I used Windows tried to enable every option in O&O ShutUp10, got a BSOD.

on top of that, Microsoft has thousands of different domains they use for telemetry, good luck trying to stay up to date with that...

"sometimes one wonders why you just don't shut up and tell people to buy a PC with Windows or a Mac. No Gulag or lice, just a future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the Hedgehog."

Dennis R.

I have to confirm this (in general).

I have a secondary Win10 OS and, throughout months, after each update it kept losing more and more of the preferences which I initially set -> too frustrating -> I gave up trying to have it be set the way I want.

The same can happen of course as well on Linux, but it happens definitely less frequently.

Telemetry is disgusting but can’t stop wondering if it’s pervert invasion or consensus building if it’s not done the way it’s done now. “popcon” has been around for long.

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