[–] 19 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Telemetry is a useful technology that's abused, like how recommendation feeds eventually turned into hate video broadcasts.

Opt-out telemetry is the only way to reliably get useful data from the silent majority. MS Office menus are better than others because Microsoft actually knows what normal people use. Paste was immediately promoted to be the first big button in the first tab after they sorted through Office 2003 telemetry data and saw the popularity of the feature.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    And on Linux you need higher tech knowledge and more time compared to other platforms due to almost everything being less polished. None of the Linux file managers have views, filtering and grouping features as polished as Explorer for example, so users will spend more time on miscellaneous tasks like managing files and they'll add up.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Now it's at the point where if you treat Linux desktop as something other than a game console or a development platform you're in for a world of pain. Have fun filtering and grouping documents with Dolphin.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Microsoft signs Red Hat certs then Red Hat signs everyone's certs, so the only thing Microsoft can do is to revoke Linux as a whole.

    It's the solution that requires minimal user effort since most computers are designed for Windows.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I don't have 10 year experience but RHEL desktop and server. I used Fedora Copr to rebuild Fedora packages for my desktop, as well as my custom packages.

    I have a Windows 7 VM I use when I need something more powerful than GNOME.

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