Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
by yellowapple on Monday August 24, 2015 @08:53PM
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> GNOME searches whatever you want it to, but they heavily advertise integration with online sources as a feature.
Right, and so does KDE (to an extent), but I don't recall either actually using those online sources for searches. Maybe GNOME3's managed to get worse since last time I tried it, however ;)
> OS X Spotlight does online by default.
TIL. I guess I don't use Spotlight enough to notice...
> but it's really hard to sell them on that.
It depends on the approach. I've managed to get quite a few people switched over to openSUSE (for example) on the simple grounds of "your Windows XP machine can't handle Windows 7 very well; here's something better that will save you the cost of a Windows license and the cost of upgrading your machine and won't slow down after a few months of use".
Right, and so does KDE (to an extent), but I don't recall either actually using those online sources for searches. Maybe GNOME3's managed to get worse since last time I tried it, however ;)
> OS X Spotlight does online by default.
TIL. I guess I don't use Spotlight enough to notice...
> but it's really hard to sell them on that.
It depends on the approach. I've managed to get quite a few people switched over to openSUSE (for example) on the simple grounds of "your Windows XP machine can't handle Windows 7 very well; here's something better that will save you the cost of a Windows license and the cost of upgrading your machine and won't slow down after a few months of use".