• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I’ve had so many people jump down my throat for listing some of the many obviously fucked things Microsoft did on my PC just over the life of Windows 10. (And not that it should matter, but I even paid for Pro).

    I turned all their various advertising and spying “features” off through legitimate settings, group policies, whatever, and the list of things that reverted themselves over time was insane.

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      5 months ago

      User: Goes through 15 step process to turn off unwanted “feature”.

      Windows: I turned this on, in case it got turned off accidentally. I’ll do this every reboot.

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        5 months ago

        If they were giving away Windows for free, their behavior would still be unforgivable.

        There is no scenario where any operating system including spyware or ads can ever theoretically be acceptable behavior. Any person who contributes in any way to that happening belongs in a prison cell.

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            5 months ago

            Linux is free qnd plenty sustainable.

            If you can’t support providing something for free via a mechanism that isn’t pure and unadulterated evil, then don’t do it for free. “We have to be monsters to make money” is not a valid position.

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                5 months ago

                I understand you have qualms with Linux, and that’s plenty fine, but when the large majority of servers and smartphones around the world run it, you can’t say that no one uses it.

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                That’s not true at all. It has a huge market share, just not in desktops.

                But again, that’s completely and utterly irrelevant. If being evil is the only way for your business/product to exist, it does not deserve to exist.