What to do about Windows 10?

[AGTDenton]

Thanks for the heads-up, I was about to install this for a friend based on what I'd seen in a few YouTube videos, those comments were praising the non googleness of it. Though they fail to mention this aspect...

[Ice Tea]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FydeOS/comm...ity_of_fydeos/

Example above of the type of mistrust i found online.

The thread mentions their open source version openFyde but from a very quick Google search there still seems to be mistrust unless there is a independent security audit of the code.

[AGTDenton]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FydeOS/comm...ity_of_fydeos/

Example above of the type of mistrust i found online.

The thread mentions their open source version openFyde but from a very quick Google search there still seems to be mistrust unless there is a independent security audit of the code.

Thanks, the fact that post has remained for 3 years on the 'Official' FydeOS subreddit unaddressed means they don't participate or use it and now gives me 0 confidence in ever using it. Oh well, on to another... which for speed sake will probably be Ubuntu.

[Output]

I just did this month's update on 10, and found Copilot in the Start Menu after the reboot.

Thankfully they've at least made it uninstallable with just the right click and Uninstall option, but it's sad that they are still trying to shove this crap from 11 into 10 too.

My hope is that when 10 gets to its EOL date, 12 will have been released and actually be a sane option compared to 11, but that's based on the history of 7 being good and 8 being not, then 10 being good enough (not ideal, but with the likes of ShutUp10, acceptable)*.

Whether 12 is actually released by then, and if it is actually any good either in comparison to 11 is probably just me being hopeful rather than realistic, but I'll still keep an eye on it I guess.

I'd especially rather not be forced to 11 though given its EOL date would only be a year later anyway (according to endoflife.date).




* By the time I installed it in January 2020.

[Saracen999]

I hear you, Output .... but I rather expect Windows to get worse in terms of the intrusive junk nobody (*) wants, like Co-Pilot (especially the + version), Recall, etc.

If nothing else, the breadth and depth of the anti-trust case against Google and the very realistic prospect of Google's data stranglehold being broken up by te US Gov't, and very possibly Google itself being boken up, a la Bell telephone breakup all those years ago. I doubt the Trump effect will be to reign in the FCC much, either. Quite the contrary, I'd think. Then again, I don't exactly study US politics these days. In fact, a closer analogy would be that I run, screaming, from the room, hide under the stairs with my head in a bucket of water, and gurgle "la la la" to mysef if someone, like the TV, even mentions it.





(*) That might be a smidge of an exagerration to say "nobody" wants it. No doubt some do. But the cynic in me thinks that they're the ones that don't fully get the implications.

[Jonj1611]

And here is a streaming version of Windows 11!! - https://www.windowscentral.com/softw...t-announcement

[jimbouk]

Just trying to get full control of the corporate lifecycle, plenty of other 'remote desktop as a service' options out there to varying degrees. A previous place I worked gave everyone Azure remote desktops because the corporate overlords locked down desktops so much they were useless for development work. Everyone got an expensive but useless laptop, then the company double paid for a remote desktop as well. This at least cuts one section out the same as a little Citrix box.