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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Windows malware

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

This stuff affects the user experience too. I’ve been able to daily drive Linux at work for a few weeks now. Restarting and booting into windows, after being used to Linux on the same hardware, makes windows feel like the slow, cobbled together OS that you can get for free.

I mean, we’re a Microsoft 365 company like many others, but even things like Teams and Outlook feel more responsive in Firefox in Linux than in the native apps on windows. Even video conferencing works great.

This difference isn’t exactly new to me, and I’ve used Unix or Linux sporadically over the past couple decades. However, using it as my main work OS has really highlighted the differences. Hell, even the multi-monitor support is better!

And this is with Mint Cinnamon installed, not some cutting edge or lean & fast distro.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is getting into the final form, after decades of progressive enmalwaretyfication

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, without a doubt Microsoft Windows is malware. And soon will introduce to us, adware. Yaaaay.

Fk Microsoft and it's decision makers.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (4 children)

For people who say you should read the contract before agreeing to it. What about the hundreds of thousands? No, millions of people buying new windows laptops every year. Are they presented with any kind of agreement? I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

They are. It is a huge problem that companies are allowed to do clickwrap bullshit with no human-comprehensible summary. But people are agreeing to this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The same is happening with some of these new "smart" vehicles. Built-in software in these vehicles are the anti-thesis of freedom and privacy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's like using edge to download a better browser but with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Oh they are when they first set up Windows

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ITT: Libertarians advocating for corpos with rapist mentality calling it "consent".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Sir, this is a Linux memes community

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is it malware when the user allows it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

While there are ways to disable some aspects, most people don't even know how to disable what they theoretically could.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Pretty funny how it says "Unauthorized access" right below screenshots of features clearly being enabled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Do you understand windows update is changing settings to defaults right? They are overriding user configured settings on this toggle. That is malware

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I recall once setting up Windows 7 or 10, turned off everything in oobe, and every choice was ignored. Everything was enabled after finishing

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But in the end of the day, there is no intended way to turn off Telemetry fully.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could airgap it, but then you’ve airgapped it..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

or run windows in a VM

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It knows it’s in a VM

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

nah i don't care that you're using windows who the fuck still uses eclipse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

university students ?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eclipse is Free Software and as such it is valuable even if better commercial options exist.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#EPL2

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why not something else free? Geany, etc.?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I personally don't use a full IDE, but KDE's Kate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I keep flip-flopping between Kate and pycharm community. I prefer Kate's LSP access, but pycharm's management of multiple projects is great.

I wish I could easily set up Kate so it would open random text documents in a separate session from my session that's running a certain project. And I wish it were aware of whether a session is running on the same activity. (In fact what I'd really like is per-activity Kate sessions).

Trouble is, I'm not good enough at C++ to make a merge request for those features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You guys are using graphical IDEs and text editors? I've been learning to program in neovim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With 20+ years of using various Unix OS's as my primary OS, I can say for sure that my answer to "vi or emacs?" is "neither."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Tbh, it just fits my workflow better. I would find myself editing stuff in nano more so than something like vscode because navigation in a file browser gets a little clunky for me. So it seemed fitting to learn neovim. I find the features more of a nuisance than a benefit at this stage and I want to properly understand how to use the underlying technologies these programs extract away.

I typically know exactly what I'm looking for and if I need more help I could check something out like fuzzy find. Those search boxes on file browsers are hit and miss for me, especially with Dot files. I store my scripts in a folder called .scripts and I reference them alot while building my apps.

Actually most my apps start out as scripts because prototyping is easier when you don't initially worry about UI or optimization and focus on the core functionality.

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