Re: Slimer: no more Windows for me... and this time I mean it! (was Re: Heroic Game Launcher... BRAVO!)

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.