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SpaceCowboy ,
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Oh.... Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft.

A friend of mine tried one of their "special offers" he nearly got himself lobotomized!

mechoman444 ,

I've been researching wine and proton for Linux. Fuck windows! The only reason I still use it is for gaming but if wine works as advertised I'll be switching to Linux.

AstralPath ,

Add Lutris to that list. If anything doesn't work in WINE, try installing via Lutris. My AxeFX's GUI now works flawlessly thanks to an older version of WINE running in Lutris.

chronicledmonocle ,

As someone who made the leap, I haven't booted Windows in months. Proton, Steam, and Lutris cover basically everything I play.

halowpeano ,

We're you already familiar with Linux or follow a guide? Lot of products I'm not familiar with there.

chronicledmonocle ,

Proton is the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Steam. Lutris is an app that lets you run non-Steam games in a similar manner.

I didn't really follow a guide. I mostly started by dual booting Linux and seeing what worked.

HotsauceHurricane ,

Def considering fedora for my surface 7. Microsoft & their shit is unacceptable.

01189998819991197253 ,
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https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/40145d80-c6f2-435d-a3ea-f7ca792a7d99.webm

HotsauceHurricane ,

Ive been using linux for like a year & a half !

01189998819991197253 ,
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Sweet! I was just being funny with my GIF, but I do honestly love the OS ecosystem, and think that everyone will like it more than Windows if only they'd give it the proper opportunity.

HotsauceHurricane ,

Im running a manjaro+openbox disto called MABOX linux on my chromebook. It’s fantastic for the low spec nonsense machine. But def considering fedora for the surface. Its come a long way apparently.

01189998819991197253 ,
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I'm actually having issues with fedora silverblue not updating. It's pretty frustrating, but a risk I knew going into immutable. I don't have time right now to figure out a fix. Regardless, I would totally do fedora again and recommend it to nonbeginners. It's an awesome variant, even coming into it from debian-based distros with only cursory knowledge of dnf.

HotsauceHurricane ,

I feel ya.
I tried to revert back to kernel 6.7 from 6.9 and now my chromebook is being a turd.

RizzRustbolt ,

Losing all your government contracts can be a great motivator.

BombOmOm ,
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I'm really hoping this shit is banned on all government and corporate computers. But, with how poor IT competence is.....such a ban will be sporadic at best.

Rolando ,

It will now require Windows Hello (via facial recognition and/or fingerprint)

So Microsoft also wants my fingerprints and a realtime capture of my face? Yeah that totally addresses my concerns. /S

____ ,

Shame I stopped believing that BS from them circa winME…

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Today, Microsoft announced it is addressing a recent backlash around Windows Recall, its controversial forthcoming AI-powered search service that works by taking a snapshot of your PC every 5 seconds.

Recently, it was discovered that the feature stores data unencrypted on the device.

The company says it will ensure Windows Recall data is safe by employing "just-in-time" protection, which ensures the data is only decrypted when the user authenticates into the app with Windows Hello.

Additionally, Microsoft says it will make Windows Recall an opt-in experience, meaning it won't be enabled by default on Copilot+ PCs.

Microsoft also says it's making further security improvements to Windows Recall.

It will now require Windows Hello (via facial recognition and/or fingerprint) to be set up on the system and require the user to be present in front of the screen to access Recall data.

The original article contains 232 words, the summary contains 141 words. Saved 39%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Blackmist ,

Surely it's opt in anyway, seeing as you need some special wanky laptop with a magical AI bollocks chip for it to work.

Sam_Bass ,

Rather than not install it to begin with. Leeches

Starkstruck ,

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    hamid ,
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    So yeah, I do have memory problems and I'm being over loaded at my job that requires precision and accuracy, this would really help me, I don't trust Microsoft to do it right but seriously fuck your attitude, yeah some people need help.

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