• Count Regal Inkwell
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    281 year ago

    Depicted: Why I’ve been trying to violently cut away Windows’ presence in my life.

    “Security” features that add no security whatsoever and only exist for DRM reasons

    • @elbowdrop@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      Security for me, not for thee. At this point in my life windows is just too exploitative. I know a little about Linux, looks like it’s time to learn.

      • Count Regal Inkwell
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        1 year ago

        My tipping point was actually how trigger-happy Windows Defender is about crack software and how you literally cannot meaningfully disable it without first breaking apart the entire OS. – Only do a temporary turn-off that only lasts until the next time the computer is turned on. Or another less temporary turn-off that lasts until the next system update. Which. Fuck off. I can tell a feature that is working against me from how hard it is for me to get rid of it.

        I won’t be one of those liars who tells you “Linux is eaaaaaaaaasy, you’ll get it in no time”

        It’s a skillset. You’ll have to learn stuff. You’ll have to browse wikis and ask for help on Discord servers and fucc around a lot. Plus it has this thing that when something works it works really well, and when something doesn’t work, boy are you in for a capital-F-fun afternoon.

        But it keeps me happy with how much I can customize my experience to my own personality, and how fast and smooth it is, even on my old, beat-up laptops.

        Still keep a windows install around for those days when I need some application that doesn’t exist on Linux, doesn’t have a viable alternative, and won’t play ball with Wine/Proton. But those are becoming rarer and rarer. Maybe one day I’ll be rich enough to have a computer with several GPUs and I’ll virtualize Windows instead of dual-booting it.