And no one will go to jail over this

I don’t get it. Google is just as bad, if not worse than Microslop when it comes to stripping their users of their privacy and control over their own devices. Why would that be an even remotely acceptable alternative to Windows?

Zoume

That’s performative. Sucks to be the student who will have his life ruined to be made “an example” out of.

If you really were still naive enough to think that a public tech company cares about your right to privacy at that point, it’s pretty much on you.

Step 1: Use an open source mail client that doesn’t contain trackers like FairEmail instead of Google’s app.

Step 2 (optional but recommended): Get another email service that respects privacy.

I mean they did switch to their own flavor of their competitor with Edge already so it wouldn’t be a first.

I just hope that is they do this they won’t gain leverage to control the development of Linux for their own purposes in some way.

Translation: Microslop’s executives are finally starting to realize that they fucked up.

Of course they want that. So they can control and see everything that people can do on their devices. With Moore’s law there is absolutely no reason why centralizing computers should make sense. This is pure corporate greed and nothing else.

You will own nothing and be happy.

I work for a huge organization and my local IT guys have their hands bound. I couldn’t even make a ripple in that ocean even if I tried.

Happened to me at work where they force us to use Windows 11. I had turned on the autosave feature on a Word document I was working on. Little did I know this meant it stopped saving the changes locally and started saving them on a OneDrive copy. I then worked all day on that file.

The next day I notice the file on OD, find it odd that it is there so I delete it because I want nothing to do with OD. I then open the local word file and realize that none of the work I did the day prior was saved.

I figured out what happened and fortunately the file was still in the recycle bin. But fuck that whole system to begin with. It won’t even let me use the autosave feature locally.

That really was a missing feature because in an OLED black theme the window boundaries aren’t visible. I have fixed that problem with the Klassy theme, which I really hope KDE officially integrates or at least imitates in the future.

Also with Klassy in a dark theme if you make the window shadow white, it looks like a back glow which looks very nice.

It has an emergency vehicle light bar on top and those police-style hub caps so I’m safely assuming it is their security guards trying to pretend they’re real cops.

Technically you could use that push bar to move a disabled vehicle… if you don’t mind causing expensive damage to the bodywork of the other car. This kind of bar is for when you want to use your vehicle as a weapon to pit or ram other vehicles and keep your own vehicle in functioning order. As security guards they’ll never do that.

Why does a Microsoft owned security guard vehicle need a law enforcement push bar?

“Bought them out” is a weak word too though. He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.

And now he has been having them vote to give him absurd unseen before “salaries”

Musk nearly bankrupted Tesla when he insisted that the door handles must be flush after stealing the company from its original founders.

I had an old NVidia gtx 970 on my previous machine when I switched to Linux and it was the source of 95% of my problems.

It died earlier this year so I finally upgraded to a new machine and put an Intel Arc B580 in it as a stop gap in hopes that video cards prices would regain some sanity eventually in a year or two. No problems whatsoever with it since then.

Now that AI is about to ruin the GPU market again I decided to bite the bullet and get myself an AMD RX 9070 XT before the prices go through the roof. I ain’t touching NVidia’s cards with a 10 foot pole. I might be able to sell my B580 for the same price I originally bought it for in a few months.

Best prank idea: Put someone’s browsing history on one of those.

Because some Linux users are so tribal.

I don’t even get the idea behind a “gaming” distro. Most major distros can run games just as well. The only difference that I can tell is just that they have Steam and maybe Nvidia’s proprietary drivers pre-installed. Something you can do yourself in under a minute after install.

You will have to learn the very simple task of using your package manager to install programs sooner or later anyway and If you can install an OS on your own you can absolutely do the 5 second online search to find the command to install the NVidia proprietary drivers.

To answer your question, yes. Or Mint, or Pop!, or Fedora, or OpenSUSE, or Zorin, or Ubuntu, or Cachy, or many more I’m probably forgetting. They all work. They have their pros and cons that might apply to your specific situation but more likely than not there are multiple good answers for you.

Those Linux distro recommendations are going to piss off a lot of people here.