Insane Difficulty: Windows 10? More like Windows Spyware - Insane Difficulty

http://www.forbes.co...-spying-levels/

I've been seeing articles like this pretty much ever since Windows 10 was announced, and it makes me wonder why on Earth people put up with it.

If nothing else, I'm glad I'm never going anywhere near that piece of shit. I wouldn't fuck that with Hitler's dick.

Shit like this is why I haven't updated.

And if you REALLY want to get your Windows 10 hate on (and come on, who doesn't? Besides Advent), here's a ripping good one:

http://itvision.alte...s-10-sucks.html

Long live Windows 7, I guess. Gotta live up to that evil corporation stereotype, eh Microsoft?

too bad my latest computer came with windows 10 installed already, makes it hard to avoid using it at all. fucking microsoft

http://www.cracked.c...out-windows-10/

You haven't truly made it as an evil corporation until Cracked starts making fun of you.

https://www.reddit.c...dows_10/cywvkf2

This may be useful to some of y'all.

Thanks for the links, went ahead and removed some of the updates on win 8.1 that were mentioned in the article.

Also useful: http://www.infoworld...7-or-81-pc.html

As a techie myself, the biggest problems I face are corporate sheeple/shills that praise DirectX 12 like some great instant 'automagic' performance improvement button and don't realize that there are less than 7 currently released DX12 games and very little to no real-world benchmarks outside of some 3DMark ones done way back in July of 2015.

Then the idiot links to a TECH DEMO that Squeenix put out and I had to call them out on their absolute horse-shit. I really did.
It started in this thread and then things just continue to go downhill as more morons try to hit their heads against the wall to 'prove me wrong'. They fail miserably.

Some highlights of idiocy:

Recommending an SSD on someone with a total budget just under $600. Because the game takes absolutely forever to load (hint: it loads super fast in under 10 seconds most times even on my 4+ year old 7200 RPM mechanical hard drive).

Recommending an objectively weaker CPU because 'hyperthreading is more important' apparently despite it being useless for gaming for over a decade. Also weaker in benchmarks, but screw logic.

Bragging about having a GTX 970 and not being aware of the major issues with it (and the lawsuits) since it is a 3.5GB card masquerading as 4GB.

Calling me a troll/(insertnamehere) that is 'attacking' them for calling them out for their bullshit. I guess anyone is a 'troll' when they beat you in useful info. Ok then.

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson



I never get the people that shill so hard for DirectX 12 and Windows 10. Are they investors in Microsoft? (Likely not).
Why would they care so much whether a certain company's OS get a custom build just for them? It is absurd.

I've managed to be techie enough to avoid all this shit. I moved my father to Linux Mint for banking/taxes/sensitive stuff. He has a Windows 7 laptop for various Windows-only programs that he likes to use, but he finds using the Linux Mint thing far easier and more enjoyable (no viruses, no worries).

Welcome to the resistance, brother.

I got a Linux partition since a few months and I'm trying to use it more and more. The easy thing to do is stick with Microsoft because there's a learning curve to use Linux to its full potential. I'll keep a Windows partition for .NET development and other specifics programs.

Madsiur, on 13 February 2016 - 07:12 AM, said:

Feel free to use both. I have Linux on my laptop and use it exclusively for non-gaming purposes like banking, taxes, and other sensitive transactions. I use Win7 x64 on my desktop because it was the last/stable version of Windows without the bullshit of Microsoft meddling. I avoided installing those terrible updates that put in more tracking into Win7 and Win8.1 and got rid of potential crud with some helpful tools.

Denton, on 11 February 2016 - 10:07 PM, said:

I put linux on my moms PC as well. She kept complaining about how slow it was so I got sick of it and installed linux mint on it. Much lighter.

Heh... Google "Windows 10 is malware" and just bask in the hate. BASK, I say!

To call Windows 10 malware isn't even an insult - it's simple fact. What Windows 10 does by Microsoft's own admission is the textbook definition of malware. And people stand for this shit?

Join with me, brothers, and fight this war! Our forefathers didn't fight and die for our freedom just so we could let these assholes take it away from us. And this isn't even hyperbole - the objective of Windows 10 from its very installation method is to take away your freedom to choose.

So what about you? Will you fall in line, or will you open your arms to fight?

Well, I'm not about to fight a war...

But I'm not going to use Win10.

To resist them is to fight. Microsoft will not stop at their current attempts to force their new operating system on the masses. They will redouble their efforts and be back in full force.

BTB, on 16 February 2016 - 12:53 AM, said:

Well, if they get pushy enough I'll use this Linux thing everyone is talking about.

Didn't I read something about a line in the Windows 10 EULA that allows MS to brick software they suspect is pirated software?