I can't touch Windows installations anymore, half of it's fucking ancient spaghetti code is dedicated to reporting back everything you do to M$. Pure bloat.
Ever since I set up Pi-hole, set my DNS client to it on Windows and inspected the requests it was making; I just couldn't willingly use it anymore, it's so fucking dirty.
You have no control over it, it'll always make a shit ton of connections to M$ servers no matter what you do.
I was running Windows 10 LTSC + O&O ShutUp 10 with everything disabled on it but even then it kept making requests and the more it failed (due to Pi-hole blocking off any M$ domain) the more requests it seem to make.
Every time I opened the new Metro UI Settings control panel (lol why 2 control panels? fucking idiots) it made a DNS request, you can test it yourself.
Bit the bullet and distro-hopped for a couple of months until I settled for Arch + KDE and haven't looked back for a year.
Legit the only idle DNS requests Linux makes are periodic ones for the Time Synchronization protocol and Internet connectivity check.
>Why is Windows so privacy invasive?
because that makes Microsoft more money
because if they don't spy on you, they have to hire QA testers instead of relying on telemetry data, and the retarded amerimutt government doesn't require it to be opt-out if they don't actually sell the data to other companies
if you ever try asking a company's customer-service droids about their privacy policy, you can see the weird distinction-without-a-difference dance that they do. That is, they'll swear up and down they never sell your data. As in rights and copies of it are never transferred. Do they let other companies pay them for access rights to the data that they themselves keep in their own custody at all times? Well, yes, but that's totally different, you see!
I thought for a minute that you might be the first frogposter I've ever seen that wasn't retarded. But alas,
>I settled for Arch + KDE
It's pretty lean on Arch because you can download the package that only contains Plasma and no other tools. It gets updated very regularly so it's nice seeing those packages coming in very often due to Arch being a bleeding-edge distro. What's your DE/WM?
Linux Mint
Cinnamon
NOOOO YOU CAN'T USE THAT DISTRO! IT... IT HAS AN ACTUAL INSTALLER! NOOOOO
Autistic morons like you will always find something to nitpick.
Go ahead and post your distro and DE of choice so we can all laugh at you then.
Arch + KDE is great I've been using it for a few months now
I am so close to being free from Windows, if Mint gets Wayland then I'm going balls deep into it. Won't miss most of my Windows specific programs, can always use wine or a vm for rare cases. Proton is good for 95% of my library, emulation works great too. Only problem is c# coding
take the dive anon. i work in media. photoshop, after effects, premiere. i ditched all of it for an arch dwm system with davinci resolve. no more random crashes. no more bullshit. just comfy. i vnc into a heavily firewalled laptop whenever i really need to make a composition on after effects, but i generally just embrace teh simple solutions now.
Krita and KdenLive suit my needs, my main issue with Linux is just xorg not having per monitor scaling. I can handle everything else tho
I wanted to go to linux, but the amount of shit you have to go through to have a "windows like" experience is insane. I don't even care about the spying. Sure Bill Gates knows what pirated movies I downloaded and the password to my bank account, but is that really going to cause any negative consequences to my life? I don't think so and I am willing to make the sacrifice for the convienence of using Windows.
Linux /CAN/ be time consuming, you really have to have a passion for it to use it and not go back to Windows. To each their own, I very much mind the constant snooping they do on your OS and the fact that it's closed-source, so I moved all my computers to Linux but Windows is fine if you don't care about privacy or efficiency that much.
just go with ubuntu senpai, it gets more user friendly by the day
if you have different resolution/refresh rate monitors on xorg, its a huge pain. Otherwise I don't have too much problem getting most of the way there for a windowslike experience
So stop trying to have a windows-like experience.
closed, wontfix.
>the amount of shit you have to go through to have a "windows like" experience is insane
You mean downloading Mint? Just download Mint Cinnamon, it's simple and it's very similar to Windows.
>is that really going to cause any negative consequences to my life?
you sound like a guy who got cucked and then pretends he's cool with it. If Microsoft had told you ahead of time and given you the choice, you'd say no. Now you're only rationalizing it because you fear change.
>but you don't understand it doesnt effect my life who my SO sleeps with as long as I close my eyes
>ancient spaghetti code
Last I checked Windows was closed source. What makes you say that other than it being a nocoder buzzword?
>nocoder buzzword
I wish morons like you who are only in here for the hentai and memes just fucked off.
Remember the Windows source code leak a while ago?
You mean XP?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21455655/microsoft-windows-xp-source-code-leak
Yes, that's why I said ancient spaghetti code. Your Windows version still has that code in it, that's why Windows has so much backwards compatibility and probably will run .exe's meant for Windows XP and possibly even earlier versions.
What data of yours were they sending to themself ?
That's the thing about Windows, you can't know.
You could analyze the Internet packets but they're encrypted and the OS itself is closed-source so you can't check what it's doing every time it runs a task in the background or in this case, every time you open the control panel.
Can't you use wireshark to inspect the text in the packets ? You can view all windows telemetry with this program here too
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/privacy/diagnostic-data-viewer-overview
>Why is Windows so privacy invasive?
because people will eat shit
1. install tinywall
2. no more connections
thats it, retard.
I knew I forgot something when I started this thread. I had that installed too and it still made DNS requests.
It had it configured pretty tight on a allow rule where it was mostly just the browser and a couple other programs, nothing M$ related, even smartfilter.exe wasn't in the list.
But you can't keep TinyWall from preventing Windows services to make connections to M$, you can check it yourself on the "Active Connections" tab and see that svchosts.exe is connected to various M$ IPs and the so called "System" app is too which you can't block. You think you know it all but you're just a smug gullible little bitch who thinks he's not getting dicked by Bill Gates because he's sitting behind his own "TinyWall" lol, I actually pity people like you. Enjoy your compromised unfixable OS, it's just like AIDs.
Because naggercattles welcomed the malware infested windows 10 when it launched.
i need it for pokertracker 4 and HUD when plating poker