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Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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1725 points taubek | 1 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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oliwarner ◴[27 Mar 23 07:25 UTC] No.35323842[source]▶
I left Windows in a hail of Vista bugs, over a decade ago. I've seen it get worse and worse in that time, both in UX rot and anti-consumer "features".

I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

Not here to eulogize over what I moved to, but I think it's important people consider why they're still using Windows. It's not your friend.

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EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK ◴[27 Mar 23 07:55 UTC] No.35324039[source]▶
It took me 10 minutes to run w10privacy to remove all the telemetry and spyware from Windows. It took me hours fiddling with adb to partially remove some of evilness from my android phone. Dont know much about iOS, but I've heard they dont even have an adb equivalent.
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1. cies ◴[27 Mar 23 08:45 UTC] No.35324350[source]▶
> As to the Linux, I tried to use it every so often, but it takes forever to learn all the command line switches to accomplish even the simplest tasks.

I rather spend time on getting some weird hardware to work (yes this is still occasionally a thing in Linux land), that getting my system "reasonably spyware free" (as we have no clue what actually happens since it's closed source).