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[–] chmod 4 points (+4|-0)

Yet another reason to stay with Linux. Just having my wife's Win10 laptop on my network scares the shit out of me.
[–] sidewalker_Principle [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

Do you have a preferred distro? I've played with kali, openSUSE, and ubuntu on virtual machines. I don't like the feel of ubuntu, especially after I found out they sell data, and I'm not a hacker so kali isn't for me. Tumbleweed was alright.
[–] chmod 3 points (+3|-0)

I've run so many over the years starting with Redhat before it became Fedora. I ran Fedora and Ubuntu for a long time but am currently on Mint. Even though it's an Ubuntu spinoff, so far it's my favorite.

[–] sidewalker_Principle [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

I'll check mint out when I get home. Thanks for not responding with "install gentoo" lol.
[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

I've been running Debian Stretch on a desktop and a laptop and Rock Cluster on 8 Dell blades. I prefer Debian. Rock Cluster is based on Fedora, which I have never liked.
[–] ScorpioGlitch 1 points (+1|-0)

ReactOS is a windows XP clone and the latest release has the framework in place to start towards running windows 10 software without actually needing windows 10. Best of all, it's not Microsoft.
[–] chmod 1 points (+1|-0)

I've never heard of it until now. Still in Alpha after 21 years?
[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0)

Really? It's one of those things to actually pay attention to. I read somewhere that they have something like over 14,000 unit tests and they all pass. I tried it maybe 10 years ago and it was nice. Pretty much windows XP. I got a little nervous because of "How do you update this thing" at the time and I had only just heard of it and didn't want to rely on it as my primary OS.

I can't help but wonder if I should maybe drop some cash on a terrabyte SSD and swap drives to see how it runs now. Even if it doesn't pan out, I have a terrabyte SSD.

[–] revmoo 4 points (+4|-0)

Automatic updates are absolutely fucking retarded. It would be one thing if you could pin your OS version and only receive security patches, but they roll out new features that contain new bugs with every update, thus ensuring that you have to remain on the update treadmill literally forever in order to keep your PC secure. It's a stupid system and it should never have been allowed to happen this way.
[–] sidewalker_Principle [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

Agreed upon and up-phukked. I just don't get the consumers who purchase into this fallacy. Such ignorant people. I only keep it for gaming because the industry is converted by capitalist greed to follow the great swine.
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[–] [Deleted] 2 points (+2|-0) Edited

I get it. But storage is so incredibly inexpensive. Walmart sells a WD blue 1TB for 40 bucks.

I guess I can see where this could be an issue for laptops but not a desktop.

[–] sidewalker_Principle [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

With storage being so incredibly inexpensive, why does Microsoft need my space? Surely they can afford server farms of their own...
[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

The space is to insure there is storage on the local machine for future updates, per the article. Having it on a server would not achieve their goal.

[–] fineon -1 points (+0|-1)

Woa.. what choice is there for non-mac and non-linux users. Guess we win-users deservedly allow MS to take whatever they need out of our comps :(
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