mephistopheles

I don't like the way Microsoft has lately begun treating both their devs and customers, but nevertheless they are a corporation - they have to someway make a profit - a business survives by adapting to their users and telemetry ("spyware") is data; data on which they (should) adapt to their user needs.

Is it just me or the mint-ui homepage[0] doesn't display anything at all ?

[0]( http://mint-ui.github.io/ )

I have tried using it for the past couple of weeks, and had to fiddle a lot for the first week or so to get it working nicely. The package state is stuck at 14.04 but you can upgrade[0] to 16.04 with dirty[1] trick. After the initial setup, Windows Bash worked just fine for my Rust / Go / Python needs.

What would you mainly use the bash environment for ?

[0](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/upgrade-bash-windows-10-u...) [1](https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/482#issuec...)

As long as both parties are using the Off-the-Record Messaging plugin[0], yes.

[0] https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ or pidgin-otr in the package manager of your choice.

I doubt that; they most likely were just a bunch of nerds who recognised the cheap routers and discovered the vulnerabilities from just playing around with a laptop and something like Kali Linux.