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Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Seems like the answer is never. The masses are too addicted to PC games to give it up.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's not the PC games keeping people so much. Proton solved a lot of that problem. It's inertia.

    Most people don't care about things. They just don't. Their brains just don't have the juice.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The bigger problem is that most people just aren't up for installing an OS themselves. I've certainly never had the chutzpah to replace Android, and I'm more tech savvy than most

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    100%. I think a lot about one of my friends when trying to think about that kind of user. Smart lady. Advanced degree. Has her life together. Would absolutely not want to try to install an OS. Wouldn't even know how to start.

    But I'm confident if I handed her a Linux laptop, she'd use it just the same as a Mac or Windows machine.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I agree. But I think more to the other side of it. I worry that a vast influx, who don't care about privacy and computing freedom, would make for huge market pressure to lock down Linux. Same way we see Windows, IOS, Android locked.

    Game co's, big tech, and others will demand it, if the masses flee to Linux. Today, most Linux users go nah, we want freedom more than your AAA game. If that changes, we could lose the very culture that resists locked down corporate controlled computing.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Gaming hasn't been an issue for years

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    There are certain games that refuse to enable anticheat on Linux. So if you play one of those games, you’re forced to use Windows. But that isn’t Linux’s fault. It’s simply the game makers refusing to enable Linux support. Multiple game devs have even stated that it’s basically an “enable on Linux” checkbox on their end, but the publishers want that sweet kernel-level access on Windows.

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