Microsoft’s “Recall” is a Privacy Nightmare 

sure for the experienced/"smart" user but chrome os becoming more popular will mean more support from game devs etc i feel like currently a lot of people are being held back from linus because like luke (9:14) said they want one operating system to do everything you dont wanna switch to windows to play games if these things get fleshed out on linux a big switch will probably happen

It's Gentoo. Chrome OS is Gentoo.

Lol you're dead wrong the average consumer isn't even gonna have to decide they'll buy a chrome book and thus the decision is decided

@@bluephreakr Yup, in this eternal debate about Chrome OS and Android, i take the mid position that consider Chrome OS a Linux distro, but not Android.

@@Denis-Maldonado Yes. That would be like calling iOS a Unix distro because MacOS is one.

LMAO

Well, it was for me.

that's true.

Same, onto Arch I go. I'm using Arch (now) btw

​@@opus_Xhow to recognize arch user

Begin with a checklist of your needs and wants as far as s/w goes. If you can forgo those apps that are not available on Linux then you're good to jump. Personally I'd buy a cheap (used) PC and put an easy-going Linux on it (Ubuntu) and transition slowly. Network all together to help. Note that if you exchange a lot of docs such as Word and Excel, you will find importing/exporting from Linux to be tedious. (Esp. the export part).

Yeah, I'm sure this really will be the year of linux to shine. Just like the past 25 years or so.

"I think a lot of us are more than ready to leave windows" But that is the problem. Thats the entire second half of the video. A lot of us are ready to leave Windows. Linux OSs, however, are mostly not ready for you to leave Windows. Maybe soon, work seems to be going, but... well, just watch the video. I can't say it better than Linus did.

@@albertobueno7805 If you don't have a need for gaming, the MacOS still hasn't lost its way. It's unix under the hood, too. Linux is too fragmented.

@@albertobueno7805 And by maybe soon, you mean never. They will never have the attention to detail that this takes.

I don't think it was so bad, but to be the only OS on a more capable device? No. If anything, ChromeOS living as a desktop UI in a flagship phone would be it's marquee usage, especially in the enterprise sector.

Well it wasn't so much an OS, as much as it was a frontend for websites.

@@davidmalkowski7850 I think the main reason is most kids' experiences with are with a very locked down OS with school admin rules imposed on it.

FR kids getting a proper gaming windows laptop to evolve past browser games, or getting a macbook because your dad is rich, is a rite of passage for all kids

@@bhzoop It's also illegal according to EU GPDR laws that kids use chromebooks in schools since google steals all their data from minor who can't consent and get forced to use it by the school they are in. It's an ethical nightmare

Yep, quit trying to drive my car for me.

​@@Bender-officialOnly for it to be stealthily turned on after a future update. 💀

@@SelecaoOfMidas Honestly, WTF is their justification for doing that?!

@@Bender-official And mickeysoft can turn in back on in an update. NO THANKS.

@@Bender-official I'd rather not have it at all

Yes Rem

jessica 💀

​@@raawesome3851 Lol no way

Even if they recall it, the damage is done.

@@raawesome3851”who’s Rem?”

🧠

Big brain 🧠🧠

Perfect

Straight to linux

Then when you go to ask it something you did "Sorry we already sold the information if you would like to access the results please subscribe..."

At this point, MS aren't making an OS... they're making ads for using literally anything besides what they sell.

I don’t regret having switched 5 years ago.

They took it a step further to an actual damn screenlogger what the fuck

Windows Recall = Keylogger BitLocker by default = Crypto Ransomeware Windows 11 = Spyware/Adware

I work in healthcare, and most (all?) of the electronic medical records only have MSWindows and maybe iOS clients, so we’re an all-MS shop. And Recall would absolutely be a dealbreaker. Then there are other fields, like law and government intelligence and the military that have similar or greater data privacy concerns, and are currently 😢dominated by MSWindows. There’s no way that MS keeps its enterprise marketshare without a version of Windows 12 that doesn’t just limit Recall, but simply doesn’t include it at all. Or at least a version that they manage to _convince_ healthcare/government/corporate customers doesn’t include it. Now, whether Recall is _really_ removed from that version, and whether regular folks can get their hands on that version, who knows? But I can’t imagine it won’t exist. To be clear, this is no defense of MS-haven’t used their software voluntarily since…well, ever, actually, because I just don’t trust them. Don’t trust their intentions, don’t trust their software’s reliability, don’t trust their data practices, don’t trust their promises. And every time I think “it’s been a while since they screwed us over or _really_ screwed up-maybe I’m judging them on old data and they’ve changed” they do something like this. But despite their track record and my cynicism, I can’t imagine they won’t make Recall _truly_ optional for business and government customers. Probably charge a hefty premium to _not_ include it.

@@phoenixrising4995 ChromeOS = Spyware MacOS = Junkware

Now?

This will make Windows 8/Metro look like a minor error.

@@kirishima638 It will make Windows ME look like an amazing option in comparison.

Thats the reason to buy, prepare to make some MONEY 😆

I doubt it will ever happen, right now its the headlines but I bet you in 2-3 months barely anyone will talk about it and most people are going to forget. If something big actually happens MS will come unscathed because they know have lots of money.

"massive security vulnerability 5 years down the line" You mean a security vulnerability beeing exploited for 5 years?

I don't know. The last time Windows Search actually worked on any of my PCs was on XP SP3 before Windows Search 4.0 update.

Jokes on them, I use "Everything" with the toolbar sw and I find things in one tenth of the time windows search needs to shit itself.

Meh Apple already does this...although with photos only at the moment. You wouldn't feel better had ya investigated a little bit more

Apple is no different. They have their own AI BS.

The only practical application I can think of is reproducing bugs for helpdesk/support so they can see exactly what happened. But that's not worth it.

Correction, no one is going to use it intentionally.

The only practical application for this is such an invasive catalog of user data that MS needs to be anti-trust and judicially overseen for potential NATIONAL SECURITY concerns as every damn AI company and AD company has had restraint scraping/selling ALL data to whoever has the cash.

on the other hand, public computers are barely updated.

microsoft will totally not use it to train their AI

nobody need to break to copilot, Microsoft already download them data en mass. also Microsoft recently start showing warnings ⚠️ and refuses to update if they catch you installed specific apps to mods windows.

Co-pilot is just Bonzi Buddy, but it is less cute and dare I say more invasive as well.

Even if i turn it off the code is right there, and windows being proprietary there's no other way than trusting MS that they aren't doing anything.

"All our users end up getting malware anyway. Why not just cut out the middleman?"

Agreed. And not just that…combining this data and their AI will give them the ability to replicate employee and industry wide workflows. It’s IP theft

I can see it becoming regional-specifically "integral" to the OS, like how you can (finally!) remove Edge in the EU, but everywhere else in the world they still cling to the old lie.

Now you see they only work on special "Copilot Plus" computers, if they wanted it to be for data collection they would've made it more widespread, the two people who own one of those special computers aren't going to earn Microsoft _anything_, the money is large masses of people The goal is most likely to get people to buy "Copilot Plus PCs", and also it's not that easily usable data (will probably not be an issue in the future though) The biggest issue is it taking a picture of your bank information and stuff like that

@@PhoenixClank I think that was their point lol

Not only one drive. The ways to get around without a MS account dwindle, Bitlocker is enabled by default and the automatism is attaching your key to your MS account.

I love it when RU-vid deletes your comments or replies for absolutely no reason

Anything from Google is a privacy nightmare

thing is most people don't seem to care about privacy for whatever reason.

@@eps-nx8zg caring about privacy requires effort and thought. most people have other priorities in their life, think they have nothing to hide and do not understand why not having privacy is a risk

Right, but it's still linux based, which means as chrome OS gains more support, linux automatically benefits. You're going to have your percentage of users that don't care regardless, and those that do find out about the security concerns and care, will most likely end up switching to linux.

Chrome os is not a real Linux distribution

Yeah that's why I believe this will 100% end up becoming a "Stored securely on Microsoft Azure" feature in the future. AI can already summarize images, so all Microsoft needs to do is tweak the recall algorithm to create a summary of each screenshot, and they can both upload, store and process it in the cloud. It's an ad monetization dream: "We saw you browse the web for gaming mice 3.46 hours this week. Here's an ad for a Razr sale on Walmart".

This is exactly what's happening.

@SoundwaveSinus9 Yeah, or imagine if you're someone who just don't want the bible stuff for your children, but you happen to live in a very bible-centric county or city, and then the AI just randomly labels you as "atheist" in some public way. Would be downright dangerous for your family. 😧

@SoundwaveSinus9 That's almost certainly the primary customer this is was intended to serve.

a fameous game dev once said: our system cant be cheated on. we use a kernel system anti cheat. how wrong they where... it made people made even better cheat systems that are now impossible to clear by pc alone.

Hey Windows refugees, f off we're full. You have to go back. Linux is for intelligent people, not for the normies.

@@MarquisDeSang Nah, we don't need that kind of supremacism.

@@MarquisDeSang this is the most hilarious comment I've ever read

@@MarquisDeSangI’ll stick to windows I like game support 😂

Ah, a Linux gate keeper. For my part, I'd like to welcome everyone to Linux on Desktop. It's awesome! I'd love Windows to go way down to 10% share or less. Otherwise there is no way that Microsoft drops it's shenanigans.

Episode 1: The Corporate Menace Episode 2: Attack of the AI Episode 3: Revenge of the Linux

@@retroroom7 Love it lol

The best part about this is that Qualcomm is planning to have the mainline Linux kernel usable on these new chips at launch (some patches already landed in Linux 6.9 and 6.10) with additional features coming in the next few months.

if you were going to leave you would have already. this isn't the first violation of privacy.

@@retroroom7 But AI in the hands of the people is good, AI only in corporate hands is the problem.

I'll argue this year is the Year on Wayland in the Desktop, and 2025 and beyond will continue to get better and better for Linux.

I've been on linux for a year now, never coming back

Everyone will switch to Mac instead. The public idea of Linux is in a complete stranglehold by the idea of the terminal.

​@@Robotta Don’t forget that hell froze over and Nvidia is actually working on open source drivers and they solved explicit/implicit sync and Wayland support. And that Wine is gaining direct Wayland support.

@@Jmcgee1125 I highly doubt it. Macs are getting more expensive by the minute and they were never designed for gaming, only office work, which Windows can do fine already with less money required, while Linux also works better for daily use and gaming than a Mac, while also being free. Realistically speaking, most people would switch to Linux rather than Mac.

I switched fully to Linux around 5 years ago. Nowadays I only use windows for work on my company-issued laptop I don't miss anything from Windows and I don't play video games. I don't plan to ever go back to Windows, at least not on my own home devices.

You don't even need that much knowladge. If someone has OneDrive enabled with tones of cloud storage. This will nostlikely be auto-backed up to your OneDrive. and if anyone knows your outlook email and password. They can see all of this data.

Supposedly all the data from Recall is local to the machine. Though you have to wonder how long that's going to last before Microsoft makes it mandatory that recall saves to the cloud.

@@nendymion Local to the machine, but what if a scammer gains access to said system like they do already. Now they have all your data and bank and passwords. They don't even have to try to scam you. All they have to do is have you install anydesk and they they just take it without you doing anything other than trusting them long enough for them to get the program on you system.

It's going to happen to someone prominent, they won't have known it was there and the device will end up a at repair shop (sound familiar) or for sale but someone forgot to reformat or didn't do it properly and it won't take long for someone to figure out who used to own it. The fallout will make the icloud fappening thing look tame and it won't just be pics, it'll be highly compromising PII typed into text fields and viewed in PDFs/emails. Only a completely reprobate and megalomaniacal organization would even attempt something so obviously deranged. I remember years ago Top Gear did a segment where they talked about a scandal in the British news about a car formerly belonging to one of the royals being sold at auction, apparently the person who bought it found out who owned it due to the GPS memory. It was a bit silly because the vast majority of the places in there were well known to be inhabited by/associated with the British royal family, but it did start a public conversation as GPSs were just starting to come preinstalled in cars at the time. Now take that rather minor privacy exposure and imagine how crazy it'll be when someone ends up with a device with YEARS of intimately personal computer use history neatly organized and annotated for easy searching that was owned by a famous person...

Better get used to Linux, the sooner the better.

Nobody has to get used to anything. The fact people are using Windows 11 at all, by choice, boggles my mind.

Worst part is if you're even remotely advanced, all these AI features are useless. Recall? How you about you organize your files and bookmarks? Copilot opening windows? Well on Linux I can automate all kinds of things, tile windows in complex ways and manage lots of applications with my keyboard much much quicker than AI can. The people who don't know how to do that would realistically almost never need it in the first place. So yeah Copilot PC and AI in general are overhyped and as you see privacy also goes out the window. Even if they say it's local (the screenshots), how am I supposed to believe that?

@@ent2220 I like that you put the screenshots in parentheses, cause I've been thinking about this.. As far as I know they only say it's the snapshots being stored and analysed locally. But they are not saying anything about the data the AI will put out during or from the analysing of the snapshots. That totally leaves room for them to get a crazy bunch of data about what has been snapshotted, and still technically not having lied about anything.

@@thomrl And to any degree that what's being proposed here is true, that the AI is learning what its capturing and that this data is getting back to humans to interpret and act on somehow, then (to me at least) it poses some serious questions about the future of humanity, like sorry to give my tin foil hat away but again to any degree all of this will happen, I guess the question is "why", what is it _trying_ to achieve exactly. I mean "ads" is one thing and I could care less tbh, I'm more concerned about either rando's getting my info or if some crazy plan is in order once enough info data is gathered (by anyone at that, we're getting into Black Mirror S3 EP6 territory here). Because I'm someone who will claim to have "nothing to hide", you're not gonna find dodgy search history here, nothing illegal. Mostly just some mildly controversial opinions on current affairs at worst. The mind can go wild with theories here.

Windows had restore points for years and it's useful if your PC/Mac gets corrupted or malware on it.

Compared to 5 years ago it's a completely different story. 5 years ago even GTA V was completely unplayable, whereas now everything just kind of just works.

@@joel345 i will never forgive those shitty companies whos anticheat purposely blocks us >:(

I tried to install Linux the other day (opensuse, Ubuntu) and I had the hardest time trying to get drivers updated and couldn’t get things like platpak installed to be able to setup games or launchers that want to use flatpak and google results were from like a decade ago.

​@@shadowseek27 Most of them are basically rootkits anyways, so I won't loose sleep.

​@@gljames24Pretty much. Most of the Windows games that don't run on Linux are corporate garbage that are worth boycotting more than they're worth playing anyway

The screenshots are not the point of this. The point is to be able to do things like ask "computer what was the website I was using 2 weeks ago to look at red sweaters?" and it being able to find that and possibly show you choices if there were multiple sites that could match. It's mean to allow you do do fuzzy search of your activity that you may not have written down.

@@RCLapCar haha it seems kind of like windows is making an AI spy bandaid for its terrible search function, instead of just making a decent search function. and I dunno, I manage my stuff like an adult, so I can find things pretty well. if I need to actually use the search function, I can do it -- but again it's slow and stupid on windows.

@@RCLapCar i can just check my browser history

@@RCLapCar "What was that one video that I kept replaying?" - "I can't find it. Can you describe it more?" - "It was very... sloppy. The woman in it went "GUAHGUAHGUAGH"." - "Did you mean this scene?" *starts playing it at full volume at night*

@@RCLapCar Would the browser history tab be of any help there? It might not be as useful as a screenshot of every inch of every page you were on for the last month.

Same. I think they use a lot of software that is proprietary....on a proprietary system. Hence the issues they have.

That's fine if you're not in a world requiring MS Office doc exchange. In that case Mac is the best alternative to Windows. (Changed in 2007 and haven't looked back).

@@AlanTheBeast100 I don't know what that is, but if you need to share docs, well docs are just files, so FTP, dropbox, google drive, etc etc, or just emailing the file, would all work fine.

@@CronyxRavage That's not the issue - the issue is the inconvenience (time) to "export" a document from LibreOffice (say "Writer") for a correspondant to read in MS Word (or "Calc" exported for Excel), etc. Not to mention when formatting is off enough to be a PITA. Occasionally? Sure. Work environment with clients/suppliers/others? Not so much.

@@AlanTheBeast100 My original post was talking about my home desktop. I built (not bought) a 4,000 dollar computer about 9 years ago, after an insurance settlement. I kept that computer as up to date as possible, without it being considered a whole new computer. Best video card the older PCIE Gen 3 mother board would support, best CPU, maxed out the DDR3, etc. It was getting kind of long in the tooth, but would still play anything I would throw at it reasonably well. That computer finally died unexpectedly, I think the motherboard went, and I didn't have anything else available right then, but a few weeks earlier, my Steamdeck arrived. So literally unplugged everything from the back of my PC, plugged it all into a USB-C dock with the SteamDeck, including my 10 TB external hard drive, and after a learning period, figuring out how to install CUPS and get my printer working, and various other things I needed.. I was back up and running. The Steamdeck feels like a computer... because it is a computer. You can even dual boot Windows if you want to, but I haven't needed to. I'm very happy with it.

u have no idea how dumb companies can be to. i work a thrift store. and my job is to fix pc's laptops. and i once said eff it. and used recuva. tons of a companies documents where recovered. i then formatted it the right way. and basically shredded them all.

@@miciso666 To be fair, they aren't exactly told when their stuff intends on breaking down. Don't have time to clean the drives properly before handing it off to the repair guy to get the data back.

the same bitlocker they borked and refuse to fix

I dont want my gaming mainframe with bitlocker...

But! THE MORE YOU BUY THE MORE YOU SAVE!!!

For real, idk how but it's worse 💀

Who the hell pays these peoples salary?!?

PC minus Copilot privacy PCs

And adding a bazzillion menus and a crazy inconsistent UI. Not to mention all the malware features Windows 11 is adding, soon Legit Malware on Windows will make it safer. MS are 🤡

windows has had more bumps for a little while now.

I'm technically a Mac/iPhone user but I sure as hell am not a high income customer, I buy second hand.

Yeah exactly. Likewise, Apple is only 20% of total mobile market share but they dominate the high end where all the profits are. I’d be willing to bet Apple’s share of $1000+ Laptops is far higher than 16% in the US.

and highly stupid customers who are drinking the cool aid.

@@lyianxwith what windows has been doing the past few years, calling people stupid for switching to mac is a bit crazy

technically illiterate people who spend $5 on coffee, perfect customer base.

Yep. It pushed me over the edge. Saving up for a framework. And I understand this recall thing is only on some devices but it's more the fact that they thought this was ok at all.

this is one of the biggest reasons to switch. theyre not even faking it, just outright stealing your soul

@boscorner Also, that's until they go "in order to make this feature available on all PCs, we're uploading all of your Recall data now. Thanks!"

A HUGE reason.

​@@lritzdorfexactly. People are saying "you can turn it off!" Yeah, you can NOW. but Microsoft has a track record of taking away choice.

Exactly. It's only done locally for now. Inevitably the government will step in, MS will comply because they don't give a shit, and they'll have a direct window into everything you're looking at on your computer.

Welcome to the party, my friend.

If you need help, there's a community who are willing to help you

I switched to Linux mint last night. I deleted everything and immediately installed without regrets.

@@mathman0569 erm, the community is full of snotty neckbeards that shit on people rather than help them. i'd ask chatgpt for help with linux technical stuff. it replies every time and even has some nice suggestions. that's what AI is REALLY for.

Imagine looking at your medical records, if that leaves your pc thats a hippa violation.

You can't even turn it off. You can flip the switch in the GUI, but without the open source code, who is to say that it even does what you intended?

Me too, my friend...me too

eh vr is lame anyways

Dual boot is a thing.

@@QDSGames not everyone wants to do all that. some people just want to start their pc and have a chill time

​@@QDSGamesa libvirt windows 10 vm is way easier to set up thna fighting with windows's efi bootmgr that keeps colonising the efi partition

Freedom means hope...

I don't believe that will be the case for the EU based companies

​@@Scott_Stone It's not illegal but it is a potential security gap and this will cause companies to avoid it... If it turns out that it actually has the ability to send the information outside, it will not only be illegal, but Microsoft could be sued into bankruptcy IF they auto enable it on all devices (like every "great" feature they create)...

This is like upgrading from a old & cheap Windows laptop to a new expensive MacBook and thinking the brand/OS is the reason for the improvement. You can get powerful Chromebooks, and you can install ChromeOS on non-Chromebooks too. I'm not arguing for the use of Chrome, but if you just need to write documents, browse the web, and do basic tasks - it's far more battery efficient than Windows, and probably safer too (especially with this Recall update).

way back in the day. our schools had better pc's than at home :( but the more i went trough the schools. the more ''updated'' it became. still funny to fuck server up. and see a boomer try to trouble shoot it.

Okay, boomer 😂

@@99mage99 🤓

I like the convenience. I DON'T trust the phone with the fingerprint from my index finger though. Too easy for people to unlock the phone while i am unconscious.

​@@jamesphillips2285Do you expect someone to knock you out and kidnap you?

@@jamesphillips2285 Good Point

Emily is still around, right? I miss her videos and input.

Ran some Linux distros, vastly better? Not really. Maybe next time I'll try Endeavor OS.

​@@RezaQin honestly the search function actually working is enough for me to say vastly better, lol. What distro(s) did you try?

They have, they both did videos on switching to Linux. And it was horrible especially for gamers.

@@andydbedford They were about 2 and half years ago. I wouldn't have swapped back then either, that was before the steam deck even existed and there have a been a lot of improvements on the proton front since then. However I will watch them as I'm curious what their pain points were.

@peek5548 How could you not install Steam on Nobara? It comes preinstalled

Grub was never really that good in the first place, I just suspect Windows doesn't fix this "bug" in order to make life harder for those who would like to switch to Linux

@@NotTheGaslighter It's annoying because once I even tried to use Veracrypt once to encrypt a Windows 10 laptop because Bitlocker isn't available on Home edition, and about every 6 months when there was a feature update I'd have to boot from the recovery USB and reinstall the Veracrypt bootloader because Windows would nuke it and replace it with its own, which obviously had no idea how to mount the drive, so the system would become inoperable about once every 6 months because Windows decided to go dicking around with things that were none of its business.

True, with grub you can pretty much select how you want it and where you want it, there are even GUI apps that allow you to configure it and repair it, the amount of times I had to remove every drive to make sure Windows installed the bootloader in the right place...

Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC + group policies deactiving all this stuff

​@@uranblutAnd creating "gold disc" images of the sanitized OS for deployments.

@@uranblut So people that want to enterprise version need to pirate it then.

@@russellmania5349 yup, we normal people can't get this version of Windows :).

Also as alternative, there is a Linux. I've heard in Germany they are actually moving some of the governments workers desktops to Linux.

that list of games is a good portion of a lot of active online gamers sadly. Does Apex Legends work? It uses Easy Anti Cheat

Ring0 anticheat is a rootkit. It is a Linux feature, not lack. Who in their sane judgement gives a company root level permissions in their own computers???

@@roid1510 Apex works. The devs specifically enabled Linux support so it runs on the Steam Deck.

​@@andresstreetpunkValorant players c:

@@roid1510 yes, apex works, they have EAC set up to work for it

Imaging doing your taxes and now hackers have all your tax records.

Not only the screenshots but a nice and organized database with information OCR'ed from those same screenshots

"Clipper chip" I guess that one never actually made it into people's PCs. But "Anit-malware" is a thing because of the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal: where anti-virus software gave "copy protection" malware a pass.

I suspect at least in EU it will cause some new rules to pop up

​@@exol511yeah like right out forbid the use of this OS in any government institution. Forever. Even if they do not ever ship "recall". How can governments ever trust that company.

This should be an app that you have to install. Seriously over 70% of the included software in Windows shouldn't be built in.

When they say "We'll let you turn it off", they mean: A: You can disable it with your settings. B: You can disable it, but every update will sneakily re-enable it behind your back. C: You can "disable it", but it spies on you regardless, including countless other ways. The only thing that's reasonably plausible is that the answer is not A.

@@foufoufun Exactly, that's why it's so bloated and a lot of Linux-distros, unless it's completely purposeful (Ubuntu Studio is just loaded with productivity-software, for instance, but not to its detriment), are intentionally streamlined. - It seriously makes a fast system under Windows even faster under a Linux-distro. Not like magically sped up, but you can feel it's just snappier and just responds immediately. It's very "direct" and "no-nonsense", so to speak. I'd think everyone would like that from their computer, in whatever form it comes.

Going to the the same this summer.

running mint since 4 years, tbh never looked back, and hearing recent news, i am so glad i did so

Then those companies should be providing an office for the employee to work in with a company provided computer. This would be the same as someone looking at confidential information at a Starbucks and having someone looking over their shoulder.

@@RCLapCar Even if the computer IS provided by the company (for example for work from home) it STILL does this by default.

But they trust Microsoft.. Its one of those its not stealing data when done by Microsoft, Google etc...

That's why they get the enterprise license, where they can strip the ever-loving crap out of the OS, then create their own sanitized images for deployment on desktop and laptop.

I'm an IT admin in a small company and I decide which software could be installed on company's hardware. I read every EULA, do some research etc. We have a lot of big companies as partners and their ITsec is paranoid when it comes to working with sub-contractors such as us, but they use software breaking every NDA (e.g. 3rd party online editors, MS apps with EULA allowing MS to do anything with the content). I guess it's ok if it's MS.

Tired of people suggesting Debian systems when Suse exists

people cant explain undervolt to me and just send me links of github its annoying

@@derekfurst6233 Open Suse absolutely sucks to use, I tried it a few months ago and it wasnt user friendly whatsoever

@@derekfurst6233 Uh... I managed a SUSE server. It was fine... but I have APT living rent free in my brain due to working with so many Raspberry Pis. Zypper was okay.

It is also good for industrial espionage, blackmail and intellectual property theft. It might bite them if they get hacked.

@@johngangemi1361 MS will be fine they're too big to fail at this point.

I miss her too, but there’s no getting around the fact that if she appears on-screen it’s bound to cause transphobes to start popping out of the woodworks to spew hatred her way, and I think the staff at LMG is trying to avoid that as much as possible. I came to check out a WAN show live here on YT, and I guess she had been mentioned because the chat was a war zone of transphobes against tolerant people, and hateful comments were getting deleted left and right. Edit: fucking called it.

@@lucasurquiza554 can't wait for sunnyv2 video on how emily "doomed" lmg

@@Lyajka eMiLy MiGht bE a HuGe PrObLem For LmG WhY Is LiNuS AdDinG LgBT ChAracTers to LmG???

Emily? who?

@@gorkskoal9315 Their Linux expert from "Is Linux Mint BETTER Than Windows?" and "Install Linux instead of Windows 11 - Here's how!"

Not even sell, but just giving away my soul to him if he could make an ultimate Windows killer. 😂

I'll switch when SteamOS launches. And I can run triple monitors on my racing sim

If you didn't want to wait, there is a distro called Bazzite that is basically SteamOS for Desktop. It's immutable just like SteamOS and based on Fedora Silverblue. It would give you a taste of what its like

There's no difference between SteamOS and any other Linux distro. The only difference is that SteamOS has a steam skin on it. Why wait when you can just use something like Linux Mint?

​@@do0nvbecause mint sucks

X11 is an option if you want more stability...

​@@edelzocker8169X11 is good, but Wayland is just becoming more viable

​@@edelzocker8169 its also not an option if you would like good multi-monitor support or VRR, so there's that

@@NotTheGaslighter Multi Monitor works better than on Windows...

They get skill gapped by the simplest things. Whether this is from a place of ignorance or stupidity, I still can't tell.

@@Quaker763 Yes, but your experience is not everyone else's experience. A: Not every game we play is on steam. Whenever you wanna play a game on another launcher (eg. gta5 from the rockstar launcher directly, cuz that is indeed a storefront), my experience was playing it with major graphical issues and ~20FPS via Lutris. B: There are several issues in a lot of popular Desktop Environments regarding Multiple Monitors. IDK exactly how linux handles this, but in my case 99% of the time the game would open up on any random monitor, but not on my main one, with no possibility of even changing it ingame (well i could change it, but it doesnt do anything). Just because something works for you (maybe luck? maybe you're just more experienced? maybe 5 other reasons?) it doesn't automatically make it easy and bug-free.

Well it's up to you to decide, what's mor crucial - to have your private data actually private or to be able to run all 350 games you have instead of just 300 of them.

Plus there is more Native ARM software on Linux than Windows now as well, plus RISC-V and others.

Fex emu, box64

Linux runs on all CPUs ever released! There are 16bit, 32bit and 64bit versions available and a 128bit version is aleady planed...

what did you choose for hardware

@@Madoc928 Just an old Asus laptop I got off of ebay, I didn't bother checking the exact specs inside. If you are curious and want to dig yourself it's the Asus F201E but it got released with different specs over the years.

Sounds interesting, GitHub link?