With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by Endy on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:57AM (#12310488)

1 is the reason I'll never use Win10. I don't trust Linux, even in a VM. Too many people have access and I am forced to assume it's insecure by default. My assumption will never change.

2 is inconsequential. I can use a "dark theme" in Win7; all I did was disable Aero and set up my desktop the same way I had since Win95.

3 Firefox

4 Okay, good reason.

5 The Win10 (actually, WinVista+) start menu is pointless.

6 In the word of the Spartans: "If".

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by hendersoon on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:40AM (#12312827)

You trust a closed source OS from a developer already proven to be willing to engineer backdoors and lie about it over an open-source OS? Can you explain your reasoning?

I don't actually _trust_ either one, but I would certainly rank Windows below Linux.

Also note that the linux runtime in Win10 is not installed or activated by default; you need to put the OS in developer mode and install it yourself. If an attacker can do that externally, he already owns your system.

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