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    Microsoft secured my files! (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Back in January Microsoft encrypted all my hard drives without saying anything. I was playing around with a dual boot yesterday and somehow aggravated Secureboot. So my C: panicked and required a 40 character key to unlock.

    Your key is backed up to the Microsoft account associated with your install. Which is considerate to the hackers. (and saved me from a re-install) But if you've got an unactivated copy, local account, or don't know your M$ account credentials, your boned.

    Control Panel > System Security > Bitlocker Encryption.

    BTW, I was aware that M$ was doing this and even made fun of the effected users. Karma.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

    This has been happening to people randomly for years. Ysed to get calls about it all the time, and that was pre-covid

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Always have backups! Doesnt matter what OS you use, stuff will break eventually.

    I prefer bootable full system images to my NAS for easy restores, and online file backups, both running daily.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    Regarding your last sentence, something similar happened to me with OneDrive. I mocked people thinking surely they enabled something by mistake. Nope. The defaults and general behavior are just that wacky. Glad I'm off Microsoft now.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    they've been doing this for a long time. the issue you are having is the reason I keep bitlocker disabled on my desktop. on devices that can be stolen I still use it.

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

    This happened to me once and I had to redo my coursework over the weekend...now I use Fedora :D

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I can't even adjust bitlocker settings on my laptop's windows 11 home Installation...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    The what? I think i disabled bitlocker fromsettings on my laptop which is probably home version

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Do home versions even come with bitlocker? There might be nothing to adjust

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    They do and it auto activates when you add a Microsoft account. It cannot be turned off on the home edition as it doesn't have the full bitlocker settings. Came across this one on some machine i was working on a while ago and i ended up having to pull the SSD from the customers machine and plug it into something with pro to actually disable bitlocker.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yeah, you need Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, or Education edition.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is this person lying/incorrect? https://lemmy.world/comment/16865866

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Not anymore. Now home has it too

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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I just installed Manjaro on my daily driver over the weekend. My entire steam library just works. My dev tools all work(better) on Linux, and free office is nice and familiar. Fuck widows.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    Give them time to mourn first, but then fuck widows :D

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I still don't understand why there is no other mainstream os in competition alongside MS except IOs, I wouldn't call Linux mainstream of course, don't you think that's a bit weird?!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

    no, most users just dont want to put in any work in learning something new

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    If you don't just look at desktop computers, GNU/Linux and Android/Linux are the most used operating systems in the world (not sure which is in the lead).
    If you look only at desktop computers, the most used OS is Minix, which is installed on most Intel CPUs and motherbords.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    MS abused its monopoly in the 90s. The Clinton administration was too lenient, then the Bush admin kowtowed completely. Now, there's largely no chance for another operating system to compete.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Why so! and what Clinton and Bush have to do with an operating system that is used globally!? I think you overestimate MS

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Right wing politicians will always be in favour of big corporations, they pay good money

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

    And big corportations will always pay good money, so long as it makes/saves them money in the future

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Microsoft is almost good as dead. These days, Linux takes just as much maintenance as XP used to. They've got maybe 5 years left until laptops start shipping with alternatives to Windows. My bet is it's going to be SteamOS.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Microsoft is thriving and will continue to do so, just probably on machines running Linux.
    They get paid $$ per month per employee by most businesses in the developed world.
    There is a mature alternative to desktop Windows now. But there isn't for AD, Azure, Exchange, Kerberos and M365.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    My bad, I meant their consumer grade stuff.

    I would generally agree with you on their cloud/server solutions. However, I do think AWS will get there some day.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    I have way less maintenance to do than on my old XP machine.

    And considering all the shenanigans Microsoft does starting with 10, I guess this still holds up.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Maybe SteamOS Lite if the device doesn't have a proper GPU.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    iGPUs are more than enough to play most indie games.

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