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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 2, 2025

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Is it possible to run Windows 11 without its inherent spyware and your personal data being vacuumed up by MS (or other big tech they might let in or share data with)?

I've never been too keen on 'upgrading', because 10 has been pretty good to me, and 11 introduces few new things, other than a new start menu that most nerds hated, and some added latency, I think. And the TPM requirement that comes with some issues on some mainboards.

But the Win 10 support cycle is coming to an end in half a year. And 11 does offer better window management, for multi display users, so I've heard. 10 does tend to mess with sizes and positions when the display has been switched away from or turned off. And 11 has auto-HDR so that you don't have to remember to go into display settings and enable HDR before launching a game that has HDR...? That's about all I can think of that I want.

Edit: Found this: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

It's time to switch to Linux. There were some good threads on here recently.

I might try Linux on my backup PC but I can't see myself maining it. I paid a lot of money for a gaming rig and I intend to use it.

Proton has become astonishingly good. The main problems I think are around invasive anti-cheat systems.

https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1894821367331332153#m

Hmm. Cool.

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