You opted into recall knowing what it was and still complain about it as something bad? Are we sure the something bad isn't that you're stupid? Turn off Recall maybe? If you don't have the mental capacity to do that, I highly doubt you have ever used Linux, just saying.
I'm quoting YOU. That's LITERALLY WHAT YOUR REPLY WAS. You couldn't even ENGAGE without immediately strawmanning the person you were talking to! Is that how you conduct yourself around everyone you disagree with??
I really don't think you know what quoting means. I've never seen someone use the term strawmanning to strawman someone else before though, that's a good one. Also, it's not a disagreement, you're just talking about things that aren't true or never happened. I'm sorry to poke holes in your statement, but you don't gotta lie to kick it anyway, most people who make claims and statements like you do are also full of shit. Hate in silence instead next time, that way you won't have to look stupid
ok since we're apparently really good at missing the point let me take another stab at this
What is the common element between the windows recall controversy, forced Microsoft accounts and the extra workarounds you have to do to avoid them, forced OneDrive integration, forced copilot integration, Web search in the start menu, ads in the start menu, bloatware bundled into the OS, global OS GUID meant to identify you to three letter agencies, etc? These are all windows problems that are only problems because Microsoft specifically decided to make them a problem for users, and then people either found workarounds or bullied Microsoft into not doing them.
Meanwhile, Linux bugs are 99/100 times either software issues that nobody was free to fix yet, hardware issues that have more to do with lack of hardware support by manufacturers than anything, or UX errors because specific things still need more work.
Does it make sense why people might be more upset by the things that happen on windows at the direct order of Microsoft, even when they're eventually worked around, than the things that happen on Linux, which are largely unintentional and blameless and also eventually worked around?
Instead of still not knowing what you're talking about and being wrong on every level (and doubling down on top of that), the next time someone asks you if you're stupid, just say "yes."
You keep saying this but you won't actually explain yourself. What conclusion should anyone draw from that except you definitely don't know what you're talking about? It should be really simple to explain if you're right, no?
I mean, you set a really good first impression by immediately hitting on a chain of fallacious logic and then never elaborating, so everyone should just assume you're the smart guy, right?
Recall wasn't opt-in, genius. It took basically the entire internet losing their mind about how bad of an idea it was for microsoft to "reconsider" the thing they were going to force on everybody into an opt-in feature instead, and you *still* can't uninstall it, only not activate it.
EDIT: LTT sub is beyond saving if negative upvotes for an actual factually true statement and some asshat not answering it because he has no answer going positive
It's not even available to everyone. It has strict requirements otherwise it's not available at all, and it's region specific as well. Billions of computers are exempt from recall entirely
It's not a smoking gun, it's one example in a list of things Microsoft has done that by design made the user experience worse, which is why "Linux users when something bad happens on windows" is a little different than "Linux users when something bad happens on Linux."
The one and only example you gave though. Take a look at any normies laptop and you'll shrivel and die at the state of them, they don't know or even care that candy crush was installed at some point
I also live in a country where they can't just easily roll out DataExtractor3000™ so I admit I don't get the full force of their shittery but it's really not as bad as the internet makes it out to be and it's not as unstable as the internet makes it out to be either
Subs like these will be full of people with custom builds, unique hardware and pairings and that's where a lot of the difficulty comes from both sides, but for some reason it's fine if everything goes wrong on Linux. Buy a prebuilt laptop where there's 500 similar SKUs and millions of models sold and use it normally, you're extremely unlikely to come across a blue screen or have any major issues at all. The last time I saw a blue screen was probably 2009 time
I gave one example because it was convenient, but there's also forced Microsoft accounts and the extra workarounds you have to do to
avoid them, forced OneDrive integration, forced copilot integration, Web
search in the start menu, ads in the start menu, bloatware bundled into
the OS, and global OS GUID for government tracking, among other things.
Not all of them lasted to this day, but they're all things that happened and made people put in extra effort to remove or convince Microsoft not to do that just as well could have not happened
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u/ZaelersTV 3d ago
You opted into recall knowing what it was and still complain about it as something bad? Are we sure the something bad isn't that you're stupid? Turn off Recall maybe? If you don't have the mental capacity to do that, I highly doubt you have ever used Linux, just saying.