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STAY ON WINDOWS 10!

Using Wireshark to check what a freshly-installed copy of Windows 11 was doing on a brand-new laptop, what they saw was eye-opening to say the least: just after the first boot, Windows 11 was quick to try and reach third-party servers with absolutely no prior user permission or intervention.

Many of the Windows 11 initial DNS queries where designed to provide "telemetry" data to market research companies, advertising providers and even geolocation-related domains like geo-prod-do with no permission or web browsing activity needed. The latest and greatest in the Windows line of operating systems is seemingly designed to "spy" on anyone and everything from the get-go.

Furthermore, every Windows 11 computer has a hidden SuperAdmin account in its roots that gives Microsoft full access to your machine. This SuperAdmin account cannot be disabled and has more rights than the user itself.

Enable or Disable the Built-in Administrator Account on Windows 11.

https://appuals.com/enable-built-in-administrator-account-windows-11/

STAY ON WINDOWS 10! Using Wireshark to check what a freshly-installed copy of Windows 11 was doing on a brand-new laptop, what they saw was eye-opening to say the least: just after the first boot, Windows 11 was quick to try and reach third-party servers with absolutely no prior user permission or intervention. Many of the Windows 11 initial DNS queries where designed to provide "telemetry" data to market research companies, advertising providers and even geolocation-related domains like geo-prod-do with no permission or web browsing activity needed. The latest and greatest in the Windows line of operating systems is seemingly designed to "spy" on anyone and everything from the get-go. Furthermore, every Windows 11 computer has a hidden SuperAdmin account in its roots that gives Microsoft full access to your machine. This SuperAdmin account cannot be disabled and has more rights than the user itself. **Enable or Disable the Built-in Administrator Account on Windows 11.** https://appuals.com/enable-built-in-administrator-account-windows-11/

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[–] • 1 pt

True; but there are usually alternatives to the software you use.

[–] • 3 pts

75% of the software I run has no alternatives - period. I would need to run a Windows VM inside the Linux boot, defeating the purpose entirely of using Linux in the first place.

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Same. Unfortunately 99% of what I do for work is strictly windows only if it is not browser based.

I used to have a Linux machine but it's a lot of hassle for what? The reality is privacy is completely dead and it wasn't Windows 10/11 that killed it. If I ever have or do anything that I need to be sure is secure it simply will be analog or in person.

I just think it's funny how in my experience it's consistently that the people who are worried about or talk about Windows 10/11 tracking will never give up their smart phones and indiscriminate app use. Even when you tell them that smartphones are 1000x worse than a computer ever could be they just simply shrug it off with "I have nothing to hide" or "It's not that big of a deal."

I don't like what we've created but people like me have been bringing it up for decades and every step of the way people don't care. My move now is to simply remind these people that this is what they wanted. That for the last 10-20 years they've been actively shutting down people who tried to stop this and have also directly asked for it because they knew they had nothing to hide.

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There is some security through obscurity that is relevant today through packages that are significantly more esoteric.

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This is true. Shills have an explicit agenda to scare people away from Linux. They've been steady at it since early Voat days.

As most people use office and a web browser, Linux can easily replace the typical user's desktop.

I hope people read the thread and figure out for themselves who has an agenda here and how much telemetry is lost if enough people switch. Notice the comments pretending equivalents don't exist for the majority of people even if they, as an individual, might be an exception. Which, of course, seems to trigger hard shilling.