Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.social to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 2 days ago5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux todaywww.zdnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up1424arrow-down19
arrow-up1415arrow-down1external-link5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux todaywww.zdnet.comSunshine (she/her)@piefed.social to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square132fedilink
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 hours agoI’m always amused at people just randomly talking about telemetry (without understanding what it is), even unprompted. Pray tell, why did you feel the need to say it, especially say it this way? I never mentioned anything about telemetry in the first place… Oh, wait! Do you believe that the existence of an MS account on your device changes something related to telemetry…?
minus-squarewitten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 minutes agoI mentioned telemetry because Windows (by default) regularly shares information collected from your computer with Microsoft. Some people try to work around that when they could instead invest that time elsewhere (say, installing Linux).
I’m always amused at people just randomly talking about telemetry (without understanding what it is), even unprompted.
Pray tell, why did you feel the need to say it, especially say it this way? I never mentioned anything about telemetry in the first place…
Oh, wait! Do you believe that the existence of an MS account on your device changes something related to telemetry…?
I mentioned telemetry because Windows (by default) regularly shares information collected from your computer with Microsoft. Some people try to work around that when they could instead invest that time elsewhere (say, installing Linux).