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From: Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Slimer: no more Windows for me... and this time I mean it! (was Re: Heroic Game Launcher... BRAVO!)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 05:52:47 -0400
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>On 2024-06-24 23:18, Joel wrote:
>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>> On 6/24/2024 7:14 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>> On 2024-06-24 19:02, Joel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> To be honest, it's kind of unbelievable how just in the time of
>>>>> Win11's being current, we've seen this manifest.  I liked Win11 when I
>>>>> first used it.  I would *never* *think* of going back to M$, now.
>>>>> Linux or death.
>>>>
>>>> I can only hope that I'll have the same kind of strength for myself. I
>>>> regretfully often "forget" why it becomes necessary for me to leave
>>>> Windows. Each time, I tell myself that the unethical behaviour is not as
>>>> bad as I thought or whatever. In the end, it almost always turns out to
>>>> be worse than I even imagined. Anyway, I've managed to set up Linux Mint
>>>> the way I want it to be with asusctl working and my games running as
>>>> expected. I no longer have access to my Microsoft movie collection, but
>>>> that's fine. I imagine that it's a matter of time before they make those
>>>> movies available through the web anyway. If they don't, fine... they're
>>>> accessible through my Xbox Series S. I won't install an operating system
>>>> which is most likely spying on everything I do just to have access to a
>>>> library of movies I never watch.
>>>
>>> heh!  Here we go again!
>> 
>> I believe him, this time, though.  He's making a very valid point,
>> that commercial software is going in a novel direction.  Linux may
>> quickly become the only choice, for someone who remembers the wild
>> west Internet.
>
>DFS is right, either way. 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.

-- 
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.