[PLUG] [just ignore this] W10

[jeff via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

$WORK has mandated Win10 Real Soon Now.
While waiting, I downloaded Microsoft's VM to learn my way around.

It's draconian.
It's an ad platform.
It's a profiler.
It's The Cloud.
You can't do anything without logging into MS first. You can't even 
change the wallpaper without going online.
To say this is out of scope for an OS is to be polite.

$WORK is very concerned about privacy and security. I'm even crazier.
How this wound up on our desktops is completely beyond me. It's a 
rolling HIPAA violation, if nothing else.

The browser crashed right out of the box, just before the OS decided to 
reboot without notifying me. Had I been working on something important....


One of my favorite sayings, that always gets a laugh, is "Windows: it's 
not an OS, it's a virus."  I never thought I'd long for Win 7.

W10 should have caused a major exodus to a different OS. Any OS.
Yet people accept it. It's like Win is in a race to the bottom with Google.

It's probably a tolerable OS, if it weren't for the intrusiveness.
I'd be saying this same stuff if I didn't use linux.



Proceed with insults, comments about being a few years late to the 
party, speculation on my age, compliments on my tin foil hat, and 
something nasty about my dog.
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