I don’t think they do, most of the MS doomerism I see implies they probably never tried to turn any of it off. I uninstalled one drive years ago along with turning off the ads and telemetry and its all stayed that way ever since, but I keep getting told all of it will be back with the next update. I update when it prompts me to and it never undoes my settings.

In your defense, a bunch of the earlier reports about this straight up implied that was the case for the clickbait.

Of all the overpriced bullshit people flock to for no reason other than to be suckers, sneakers are the one that made the least sense to me.

This is true, but I can find a better role model on the bottom of my shoe. I wish people weren’t so susceptible to his type of bullshit.

If people didn’t come out of the woodwork to tell people welding was so simple that their 5 year could do it then maybe they’d be less turned off by the time and effort it takes to learn it.

Specifically? I don’t know. It would likely help if the conversation around new user distros was a bit less of an argument or if the number of suggested distros was a bit less. It would help with the decision paralysis aspect of it at least. I see enough threads of experienced users troubleshooting more than I really want to deal with, I stopped maintaining my modded skyrim installation because I was fixing when I could be playing and I don’t like the idea of my whole computer being like that because I chose the wrong hardware (I have nvidia)

I know its one of the strengths of Linux, but I can’t help but laugh that the response to “you can’t agree on one, how can I?” is for several people to suggest several distros.

Prove it.

The thing is, I don’t care to distrohop and experiment with this or that. I just want to use my computer. Until I see a distro that can convince me that switching will be actually painless (not ‘long time linux user painless’, but ‘casual new user that does more than just web browse’ painless) I’ll just use windows.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in my circle who even knows what Linux is.

Linux users can’t even agree on what distro is actually beginner friendly, so how am I supposed to pick one with any confidence?

I’ve never had the settings turned back on after an update, but no I don’t monitor my network traffic, if I cared that much, I’d already be on linux.

People keep saying this, but I’ve never had to redo any of the changes I’ve made.

Well, I deleted Onedrive a long time ago, so no it won’t.

They’ve never come back for me.

You found an airbnb with a toddler? Did they serve you drinks or something?

Take a picture of your screen.

/s

The death cult is trying to kick off the rapture, do you want the end times to happen or not?

Youtube has been a bit of a son of a bitch lately, but I think that more youtube than FF/ABP.

And pomegranate too, at least for my anti-rejection meds.