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Re:Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux by 29athrowaway on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @06:41PM (#40591474)
If you could only go to the supermarket to buy water. There's Great Value Spring Water and Great Value Purified Water. And Fiji water, and Dasani, etc. It's a bottomless pit. Having to choose between these similar products makes it impossible for me to buy water... said noone ever.

The problem is approaching these decisions as if there were final and irreversible decisions from which one answer is right and the other one is wrong followed by eternal doom. That's not the situation at all. Most of these decisions are similar and you can change your mind at any time.

Re:Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux by okanat on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @06:49PM (#40591548)
You make a false assumption that all Linux things are equivalent and provide a good baseline feature set. They are not equivalent, each one misses something that Windows provides out of the box to an extent.

Choosing a Linux distro / DE / whatever is not going a supermarket and choosing a bottle of water. It is choosing a bottling factory next to a sewer or bottled distilled water.

Re:Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @08:00PM (#40591995)
> You make a false assumption that all Linux things are equivalent and provide a good baseline feature set. They are not equivalent, each one misses something that Windows provides out of the box to an extent.

Of course, each of them possesses some advantage that Windows lacks out of the box, and sometimes at all.

Re:Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux by nessguy on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @06:46PM (#40591513)
Water isn't a great example, but decision paralysis at stores from too many options is a thing.