With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by marcosdumay on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:31PM (#12308639)

I've had lots of Debian updates breaking my sound system. And twice when they pushed NetworkManager into the KDE dependencies, and when they pushed idmapd into NFSv4, it broke my network shares.

I can't remember anything else breaking on stable. It's been a much experience than updating Windows.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by dredmorbius on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:17PM (#12309561)

Sound has always been utterly fucked though. Well, more fucked than most shit. (I've actually had suprisingly good experiences with it, though my expectations are also scaled low.)

NetworkMangler joins a long list of other FooMangler tools which are best destroyed with extreme prejudice. I manage WiFi with an /etc/network/interfaces stanza, and it mostly works. Static wired interfaces are, of course, vastly simpler.

I agree that the Linux experience is hugely better than Windows, and the Debian experience hugely better than RPM-based distros. This is why having the mouse, THE FUCKING MOUSE!!!!!! fail is .... I'm beyond words.

That it's been months is the other problem.

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