The mass exodus to Linux gaming is already causing a push back against kernel level anti-cheat.

People who 5 years ago didn't give a hoot about computing outside of running steam games are now actively discussing their favorite Linux distro and giving advice to friends and family about how to make the jump.

it will never be unbreakable, and only needs to be broken once

intel can't even get SGX to work

We want to delete the fallback code paths... You'll just get failures from bitlocker instead of install failures, or windows hello failures, or ...

Registry keys and autoattend.xml config keys are not clever people finding a way, it's people using stuff Microsoft put there to do just this for now. I.e. Windows 11 has not been strictly enforcing these yet, they are just "officially" requirements so when they eventually decide to enforce in a newer version (be it an 11 update or some other number) they'll then be able to say "well it's really been an official requirement for many years now, and over 99% of Windows 11 installs which has been the only supported OS for a while now are working that way" at that time. If they just went straight from Windows 10 to strictly enforced Windows 11 options it'd've been harder to defend.

You're missing the point, the TPM 2.0 requirement is there to drive adoption, not to actually prevent you from installing Windows 11.

Windows 12 will close the loophole: your CPU will require a signed code path from boot down to application level code. No option to disable Secure Boot or install your own keys. But there needs to be an installed base of secure hardware for this to happen, hence the TPM 2.0 requirements for Windows 11.

9front with factotum tells a different story.

If you want to protect keys you get a yubikey or something like that.

Ah yes Android and iOS, they have truly become bastions of user freedom since mandating secure enclaves. That really puts my worries to rest. /s

> The overwhelming majority of users never had any kind of control

Uninterested is vastly different than unable, especially when that majority is still latently "able" to use some software that a knowledgeable-minority creates to Help Do The Thing.

The corporate goal is to block anyone else from providing users that control if/when the situation becomes intolerable enough for the majority to desire it.

Most people don't move away from their state of residence either, but we should be very concerned if someone floats a law stating that you are not permitted to leave without prior approval.

I think it is the single most convincing proof that we are being secretly replaced by lizard people with 8 fingers!

You probably didn't grow up with horrors like the WordPerfect function key strip or being faced with a keyboard like that on the ZX80/81/Speccy etc.

They aren't always the same: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110809-00/?p=99...

Also, even when they are the same, on certain laptops you literally hit the key-rollover problem.

A hill that I'll die on is that Apple's terminology is more correct than PC terminology for this.

Backspace makes sense if you see the computer as a fancy typewriter.

Delete makes sense if you consider the actions from first principles.

Consider the various forms of deletion (forward, backward, word, file deletion, etc.) Each of these just has a modifier key in Apple's way of thinking. (None, Fn, Option, Cmd) which makes complete sense when viewed against how consistent it is with the whole set of interface design guidelines for Apple software.

The only reason that this doesn't make sense is that it's incompatible with your world view brought from places with different standards. They will never "fix" this as there's just nothing to fix.

Not many people use forward-deleting. I find it much easier to just Fn+Backspace anyways, especially when Del is usually part of the shorter function row that you really have to stretch for.

And delete is a perfectly fine name -- it deletes the character you just typed. I've always thought the supposed distinction between backspace and delete was bizarre. If anything, it's the forward-delete that needs a better term, like... well, forward-delete. Fwd-Del.

Buy the keyboard you want. There are plenty of good ones.

Which doesn't count for that much when a whole lot of stuff has also become worse.

There's a reason as to why people were reluctant to jump on win10. There's a reason people didn't want win8 at all.

Not a lot of people benefit from having 20 cores to hit.

If by improvements you mean that suspend works like shit on newer machines, yes there have been.

Not really. Improvements like what?

I have a brand-new work laptop which absolutely crawls compared to my nearly-15-year-old Thinkpad T430. Is this slowness the Windows 11 advantage? My personal laptop runs plain ordinary Ubuntu 24.04 perfectly, and everything works.

Anybody who can upgrade a computer completely deserves a medal from the council.

Crowdstrike Falcon is likely the only reason my work M1 Pro machine runs like a dog. Any time it's being a laggy piece of junk you can open Activity Monitor and see Falcon just slamming it.

Not my problem. You wouldn't need an antivirus with a properly locked browser with UBlock Origin and OFC no damn HTML email. GPO's blocking anything not being under an executable whitelist.

If any, your email client should open any attachment under a sandbox, such as Sandboxie, under a libre license:

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

Of course no Office macros would be allowed, ever.