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Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers. (www.youtube.com)
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[–] -4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

My reason is really simple: replacing Windows with Bazzite or whatever would be a lot of effort. If W11 ever bricks itself or does something hideously invasive (that I can't disable or opt out of) then it becomes less of an effort than maintaining the status quo, and thus switching becomes the obvious choice.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Linux doesn't even require installation, they use LiveCDs that you can use as temporary OS's. They are also used to permanently install them if you'd like to do that.

    There's a guy at my local library that brings his own OS to use on the public computers, and just saves stuff on removable storage.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's very very easy to install Linux. Only moderately difficult to dual boot

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I'm aware of that. What all the linux fanboys here are failing to understand is that wiping out an old OS and replacing it with something new that you'll have to learn how to use is something that takes effort and currently is unnecessary.

    W11 currently works okay. I can still easily disable the annoying things and push off nonessential updates. I don't need to replace it. Yet. If that changes, then I can go through the process to replace it. But there's no reason for me to do so yet.

    Linux fanboys proselytize more aggressively than evangelists do.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Come off it.

    The OP is about the worrisome aspects of Win11, and we're out here telling OP there's an alternative that doesn't violate user privacy.

    Obviously learning a new OS can be an obstacle but how much do you value privacy? You're sitting here saying it's too difficult. You're the problem, not me

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    We all have our limits - yours is a fair point of ease vs inconvenience. I think that is the market dominant force. That being said with how far any distro has come since I started messing around in 98.... It's close to being that easy.

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