• Encephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win
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    5 months ago

    The harder MS tries to force Win11 on me the clearer it becomes how bad it is.

    I will move to another office suit,install, and learn a completely new OS like Linux after 40 years of Windows before I ever install their unnecessary and untrustworthy data-miner.

    Win10 was bad but most of it could be removed/worked around. This time it’s clearly war against typical users so F it I’m out.

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      5 months ago

      It’s not difficult to block the mining and telemetry. Pihole, a few registry tweaks, a few scheduled tasks disabled and life goes on.

      Folk see nothing wrong with spending hours tuning a Linux distro, but they object to doing the same with Windows?

      FWIW I use vanilla Debian for everything other than what I’m required to use Windows for.

      • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        It’s a constantly moving target. Yeah, you might block everything today, but then a windows update comes along and, poof, a bunch of the data harvesting is back on. I hope you were checking the detailed patch notes every time an update installs!