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Windows 10 is better than 7 imo, I use O&O ShutUp10 and it's pretty good at dealing with all the spyware garbage.
Yeah you are right, though no one can be sure if all telemetry is gone because of the fact that win10 is closed source. btw what kind of programs/games do you run that may not be compatible with linux?Hehe, hooray for common sense. Best antivirus program to have.
Ive been sticking to win7 for a loooong time too. Win10 used to run in virtual box ;p Eventually i had to switch because of that new mainboard and missing drivers.
Spend quite some time deactivating tons of those super smart features, killing telemetry stuff manually, using tools like SU10.
So, everything unnecessary is removed. Im using VPN, block most of the stuff in firefox, use different browsers for different purposes and keep things separated. Clean up regularly and dont forget backups. Call me paranoid, but this makes me feel..like nearly safe, lol.
Guess it depends on what kind of software you need to run. Linux would be an easier path; security-wise, but its about compatibility too, sadly^^
Yeah you are right, though no one can be sure if all telemetry is gone because of the fact that win10 is closed source. btw what kind of programs/games do you run that may not be compatible with linux?
uhhmmm... Being this worry about security makes you look kinda suspicious... What is it that you're trying to keep away from anyone? do you have terabytes of... Cuestionable material?
First a fancy quote: "If you think privacy is unimportant for you because you have nothing to hide, you might as well say free speech is unimportant for you because you have nothing useful to say."uhhmmm... Being this worry about security makes you look kinda suspicious... What is it that you're trying to keep away from anyone? do you have terabytes of... Cuestionable material?
3) Principals.The problem I keep seeing is people think that because you don't post it publicly, and assume that everything else is "private"
I have tried to explain how important your medical information is to Google and Facebook, having a one-on-one conversation over Facebook chat/Gmail, or doing a Google search on a medical condition will tie those medical conditions to you online profile, and marketing companies are willing to pay for your medical conditions. And do you really want embarrassing medical conditions being shared with unknown 3rd parties or leaked publicly.
Are we really that far from having our car insurance rates increased because Google monitors our speed and driving skills on Android devices and think your a shitty driver even if you have never had a ticket or an accident. Maybe our rates are increased because you have many Facebook friends who are bad drivers and now your insurance company assumes you are a bad driver like your friends.
Are we really that far from having an insurance company deny you coverage because you did a search for a condition on Google and the insurance might use that to build a risk factor.
Are we far from having our credit score tied to data collected via Google or Facebook, maybe too many of your friends have bad credit so that increases your credit risk factor.
Are we really that far from having a divorce lawyer use embarrassing data about a spouse collected by Google (Has happened in divorces after Ashley Madison data leak)
Can't get it up? Google knows.
Got hemorrhoids? Google knows
Constipated? Google knows
Have an STD? Google knows
Having an affair? Google knows
Have a small penis? Google knows
Looking for a hook up? Google knows
Closeted/Curious gay or bi? Google knows
You secretly voted for Trump? Google knows
Well, if you have programs that aren't supported on linux (such as adobe stuff ) you can fire up a Windows KVM which would take at most 2 hours to configure. Since you only need to do the configuration once it isn't that much of a deal. With a KVM you can get performance nearly as same as natively booting Win10 on your pc.Yea, thats absolutely true. There is no "100% safe" i guess, especially nowadays. Windows, Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, that brand new mobile phone..
While it may be technically possible to get along without all of those, that sounds like way too much of a hassle for me tbh. Guess theres also that "convenience factor", or lets just call it.. pragmatic.
Ive been a windows user for ages, got everything to work properly, have purchased a lot of software and everything..
My main desktop computer is used for a lot of different stuff, running not quite so common hardware, a quite expensive sound card that does quite some work in real time, an audio interface, video editing software, emulators and quite some old games that i barely got to work on windows 10.
But in the end, it all comes down to priorities and efford, i guess. If achieving the highest possible level of security was my main goal, i should have probably buried windows long ago, hehe. I dont think thats really necessary tho. Im not the president and dont have alot of super secret stuff going on here. Its still possible to collect some data of me and analyse some of my activities, but im not making it all that easy.
By the way, what kind of llinux distribution do you use yourself and why?
Well, if you have programs that aren't supported on linux (such as adobe stuff ) you can fire up a Windows KVM which would take at most 2 hours to configure. Since you only need to do the configuration once it isn't that much of a deal. With a KVM you can get performance nearly as same as natively booting Win10 on your pc.
About the convenience part you are mostly right but personally I used Windows 10 for ~4 years and my first switch to Linux Mint wasn't that easy as you can guess. But after a month I completely got used to it. Another thing that scares people in Linux is the terminal but you won't be using that a lot of the time and even if you need to do use it, only thing that you will be doing is just copying and pasting text.
btw 99% of the emulators are open-source and support Linux so that won't be an issue.
I use arch . Because it is lightweight and has AUR. AUR is basically a program pool that let's you install any program with just writing it's name, no next-next'ing the installers or accepting annoying ToS. Just write the program name and boom, it installs.
It don't matter , none of this matters
nothing is safe anyways , spectre and meltdown say hello
also you probably have IME or PSP too
the vulnerabilities are hardware embedded now , and that is just what we know about
but I wouldn't worry too much
I am using Windows 10 right now! Also updated with Windows Update! Waiting for Windows 11 and will install it anytime soon.
People aren't expecting the telemetry to be gone/uninstalled, just turned off.Yeah you are right, though no one can be sure if all telemetry is gone because of the fact that win10 is closed source.
it's not super simple, but not rocket science - if you want to disable intel me you can.It don't matter , none of this matters
nothing is safe anyways , spectre and meltdown say hello
also you probably have IME or PSP too
the vulnerabilities are hardware embedded now , and that is just what we know about
but I wouldn't worry too much
Nah I am pretty sure a great number of win10 users think telemetry is off when you turn it off from settings lol.People aren't expecting the telemetry to be gone/uninstalled, just turned off.
It's easy to check if you use a firewall!
Well you can have a 'software' level firewall in windows, windows 10 has one built in - and block what you want.Nah I am pretty sure a great number of win10 users think telemetry is off when you turn it off from settings lol.
Firewalls huh, I don't have that much exp with them since I haven't in need of one before but I know the basics of it (tell me if I make a mistake here). So what if Microsoft uses other domains/subdomains for telemetry too, will you be able to figure out that connection with a firewall too? If you would block all Microsoft related domains then you probably wouldn't get security updates which is even worse then giving your data to Microsoft.
I wouldn't trust built-in firewall to check telemetry tbh. There might be a way to get updates while blocking telemetry but even blocking telemetry has it's limits. 3rd party firewall software might not be able to detect if we are connecting to some specific microsoft servers or not because of the fact that windows is a closed sourced OS, so who knows what is going inside it.Well you can have a 'software' level firewall in windows, windows 10 has one built in - and block what you want.
There are many different urls/ips that will get used, and so I'm sure it's possible to block telemetry but still receive updates.
If you are really paranoid, you can download the updates on a different computer and install them offline manually.
You can have an external firewall, then you wouldn't need to worry about windows having any backdoors, all network traffic would be routed through your firewall running on a separate machine, and you'd be in control of that.
(sounds extreme to some people, I don't do these things myself, I don't use windows too much, I just play around for fun)
Firewalls huh, I don't have that much exp with them since I haven't in need of one before but I know the basics of it (tell me if I make a mistake here). So what if Microsoft uses other domains/subdomains for telemetry too, will you be able to figure out that connection with a firewall too? If you would block all Microsoft related domains then you probably wouldn't get security updates which is even worse then giving your data to Microsoft.
3rd party firewall software might not be able to detect if we are connecting to some specific microsoft servers or not because of the fact that windows is a closed sourced OS
As far as Linux vs Mac vs Windows, Linux is not meant to replace any OS it's meant to supplement. NAS file servers/web servers and the like are meant to be setup with Linux as a foundation, actual terminals, stations, laptops and anything else a layman human will interact is where Windows and Mac will excel at because (to borrow and Apple line) everything 'just works' and is designed to be plug and play with any new hardware that comes out.