• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Windows 11 on my media PC every time I boot now asks me if I want to enable backups. So I say no. Ok whatever, corporate cunts are gonna keep trying to sell me stuff.

    But then it gives me another screen ramping up the hard sell and telling me how important it is I enable sending all my data to them. There’s only one button on the screen that’s styled like a button, to refuse you have to click a text link. And I’ve already said no to them dozens of times already, including once three seconds ago.

    It’s like they’re actively campaigning to get me to switch to Linux.

    • TeddE@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      I, by coincidence, am also actively campaigning for Linux.

      You should try it. It has a lot of issues and problems - but far less than you think, more importantly far fewer of it’s problems come from enshitification (software forking helps resist that), and most importantly, since many projects are community-driven the more people use it the better it’s likely to get.

    • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Put Linux in a VM and start playing with it. Use it for browsing etc. you may find it’s not that bad.

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        16 hours ago

        for a moment I thought you meant just do [enable backups]

        I wonder if there’s a way of creating a file that doesn’t actually exist on disk but if Onedrive tries to read it it outputs 5Gb of random binary?

        • HrMoon@lemmy.world
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          15 hours ago

          just switch to Linux, Ubuntu or Fedora. You will get your computer back. It will break, you will fall and learn but 1-2 months you will never ever go back to windows. People have been brainwashed into using Microsoft. You don’t need all these addictive Apps and spyware from 3rd parties. Life is peaceful. People have been telling this for a long time