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Subject: Re: Slimer: no more Windows for me... and this time I mean it! (was Re: Heroic Game Launcher... BRAVO!)
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

>>> Maybe it won't last and I'll be seduced by the
>>> fact that I have a movie collection in Windows or that my fingerprint
>>> sensor is supported there. However, the list of grievances is pretty
>>> large now. Client-side scanning, keylogging, advertising ID, general
>>> telemetry, reverting to Edge against your will, vulnerability to a
>>> variety of malware (some of which just took out the Federal Reserve),
>>> progressive slowdown, system files breaking for no reason requiring SFC
>>> and DISM, etc.. The battery is supposed to last longer in Windows, but I
>>> just checked here and my 77% charge is slated as being able to go
>>> another 10 hours in Linux Mint which is twice what Windows got me under
>>> the same circumstances. At some point, I just need to retire from the
>>> barrage of compromises in Windows and accept a few workarounds in Linux.
>> 
>> Only you will be able to decide, ultimately, but I'm choosing to
>> believe that this time you've truly come around to the truth, about M$
>> and commercial software.
>
>I get the impression that this is what beaten housewives go through when 
>they decide to leave their horrible STD-infected husbands who just 
>happen to be great in bed.


Not a bad analogy, really.  There are some nice aspects of commercial
software, but on balance, I get better results with open source.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.