What even is Microsoft's strategy? Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great. Now we have a hardware shortage and ai in everything. I miss the time when it was "My computer" and not "This PC". I just hope they keep Windows 10 around till 2030 and longer...

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senfiaj 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>> Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great.

For me a bigger concern is that Windows 11 requires MS account, and making harder and harder to bypass it. This is a disrespect for my freedom and privacy. The hardware is not the biggest issue because it might catch up eventually. https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-...

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Grombobulous a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, TPM and secure boot aren’t a big deal at all. I use them on Linux as a security enhancement.

Neither is the whole “React” thing. Microsoft using web technologies that are compiled to native code is a sensible decision. It’s a lot better than being completely unable to update the operating system at a reasonable pace like how Microsoft struggled for decades to modernize the control panel.

No, the start menu doesn’t open as fast as it does on windows 95…not a big deal. You can replace it entirely if you want. I even installed a complete windows explorer replacement. It’s just not a big deal, the OS is extremely customizable.

The Microsoft account thing is lame, although before I switched to Linux I used it anyway since it was needed to play games on my Xbox account anyway. To this day it’s trivial to bypass the MS account requirement if you know what you’re doing - one checkbox in Rufus when you flash your USB image.

I never used Windows as a serious personal system besides as a game machine, so some of these “dealbreakers” just weren’t.

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RachelF an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you.

	▲	palmotea 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you. Can you elaborate on the "or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you" part? Ctrl-F isn't finding any mention of that in either https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-quietly-gets-one-more... or https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-....

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lazide 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also the constant turning on despite my prior explicitly disabling of spyware (memory ‘live sampling’ to the cloud for ‘virus protection’, one drive ‘auto backup’), and features I’ve explicitly disabled like copilot.

It’s creepy as fuck, and for no real benefit to me that I can tell.

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Terr_ an hour ago | parent [-]

> spyware

The privacy-destroying "telemetry" continues to transmute from a theoretical problem to a realistic concern too.

For example, many printers puts forensic marks onto pages identifying their serial number, while MS/Apple log all your device serial numbers, which in turn is subject to seizure/threats/theft.

The upshot is you can't print an "anonymous" flyer stating I Dislike The Regime without the risk that thugs of said regime will be outside your door later.

> memory ‘live sampling’

"Citizen, the signature of a Wrongthink picture was detected in your telescreen..."

	▲	gadflyinyoureye 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm. Lt sure why this is down voted. ICE showed up at a woman's door trying to force her to take down a benign social media post. What is stopping similar authoritarians from cracking down using these kind of features and registrations? https://newrepublic.com/post/212340/ice-poll-worker-election...

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nosioptar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I assume they're secretly trying to get people over to Mageia.

The people I've switched from windows to Mageia since win11 all love it.

(As great as Mageia is, it does have small repos compared to Debian or fedora.)

	▲	gunapologist99 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		oh, it's the former mandriva, cool! but last released in 2023?! https://www.mageia.org/en/

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bluescrn an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Requiring a sodding Copilot advert on the keyboard too, in the case of laptops..

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inquirerGeneral 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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