• Ogmios
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    8 hours ago

    They “trust me” dumb fucks

    May not have been Gates that said it, but it embodies an attitude which appears prevalent throughout big business.

    Edit: O&O Shut Up is a free tool that helps you easily turn off/disable quite a few of the worst “features” on Windows.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher
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      5 hours ago

      There’s Windows 11 IoT LTSC if you really need Windows, but Microsoft is going to continue to fuck its users, and I don’t know why people in the know would choose to continue to use an OS that’s actively working against them when non-corporate, open source alternatives exists (Linux, or for the more niche people, BSD, Haiku, Redox)

      • @jqubed@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        I don’t think PCVR works on Linux yet. The gaming support on Linux being driven largely by Valve is removing a lot of the reasons for consumers to use Windows, though. I wonder how long before big corporations push back on this Microsoft spyware, though.

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          3 hours ago

          I don’t own a VR headset, but I thought SteamVR worked fine on Linux. Gamescope even has specific VR modes.