PC Gaming

This is why every PC should at the very least have a dual boot config these days with a Linux distro. Ubuntu, fedora, mint, pop, mx, it doesn't matter, take back your PC and have some kind of fallback in case Microsoft fucks your shit up, even Steve from gamers Nexus is considering ditching Windows for their office computers.

I mean, at least they're listening to feedback rather than jamming it through.

This was the right thing to do. But it doesn't matter how many consumer-friendly things Microsoft does, as long as Windows is still proprietary, that's the problem. Anything else is a side effect.

More like after they realized how much legal shit they'd be in if Recall data were compromised

So it goes in the same bin as the last dozen 'features' they added that nobody wanted. Microsoft, do you even use your own product?

I'm reading the excerpt from the article in the original context. It's funny how well it shows that:

• Microsoft is a piece of shit. Honest people don't use euphemisms, such as calling strong opposition a "clear signal".
• The feature is likely trash from the PoV of most of its customers.
• If the feature is still being pushed through, it means that Microsoft - not the customer - gets something out of it.
• Based on the above "listening to and acting on customer feedback" is either a lie, if not a "technical truth".

Case in point the spyware is still being installed in your system, it's just not turned on by default. Expect a lot of "oopsie it turns itself on by default, it's a bug!" or annoying pop-ups that boil down to "I don't understand, why are you user too stupid to understand simple concepts like obedience? You've been told to use it". Simply because Microsoft has already a huge backstory of doing it.

Now, about those ads..

I just borked my desktop putting my arch laptop config on it. But I'm about to fucken do it again and download KDE Plasma this time. Sick of degrading trust and UX.

I don’t want it to be optional. I don’t want it to exist at all

And it will be activated after every update, not using it will be made as inconvenient as can be.