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by itvision·1y ago·view on hn ↗
> it's free.

Over the last 25 years I've spent hundreds of hours fighting with its bugs. Not free by a long shot.

> it's stable.

Anything but.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues

> it's easier to use.

You must be joking right? A step in any direction and you must use CLI.

> it doesn't have adds.

Windows neither has "adds".

> it uses less resources.

Proofs required.

> it runs on older hardware.

Good luck using Firefox or Chrome on "older hardware". Good luck watching videos on older hardware that lacks HW H.265/VP9 decoding. Older hardware for what? For NAS? Why would you need desktop Linux on it?

> it doesn't contain spyware.

Prove that Windows spies on you. And also, Windows is used by NSA/CIA/FBI and pretty much all governments of the world some of which are openly hostile to the US. So much for "spyware".

> it doesn't violate my privacy.

See earlier.

> it includes more powerful features.

Examples or bust.

> it offers more alternatives for the GUI.

Windows has had CLI for aeons and now not just one but many including Bash (WSL).

> i can trust it because the kernel has been audited.

That's an abject lie.

> it is way easier to configure to my personal preferences.

And Windows doesn't need configuration as it just works.

> it allows me to replace or remove any application that i don't like.

What would you like to replace in Windows that's not "replaceable"? Examples or bust.

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  > Prove that Windows spies on you.
Well, for starters, they updated their EULA to permit them to spy on you as much as they want, legally:

https://thenewamerican.com/us/tech/computers/windows-10-is-s...

While Microsoft gives the option to disable some of their spyware, it is not possible to disable everything via Windows settings:

https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/microsoft-windows10-privac...

I could continue, but where have you been the past 10 years? Windows has been spyware since Windows 10. There is oodles of telemetry, and you need to have been living under a rock not to know about this. This seems appropriate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYQ5ibxslI

By the way, long before Microsoft started blatently spying on its users, they put a back door into Windows allowing them to push updates to Windows machines, even if you disabled updates. We know because they used it at least once:

https://www.informationweek.com/it-sectors/microsoft-updates...

When a company can push updates to a machine, it can change whatever it wants. Such changes can include giving themselves full remote control of the machine, if they did not have full control already.

> What would you like to replace in Windows that's not "replaceable"?

Whatever is powering the start menu ads.

Takes literally 2 minutes of Google searching to remove.
Those are easy to remove
Where's the setting and will it survive an update?