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2,200karma·397submissions·December 31, 2019
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Artem S. Tashkinov
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5. It's not about policing - it's about knowing what's being launched on startup and at least being able to disable items one by one to understand the root cause of your slow boots (and…
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The last Windows version where updates worked more or less OK was XP. With Vista they introduced WinSxS and while in theory it was a great idea, it incurred some extremely heavy tradeoffs in terms of …
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It depends on your hardware. If you have everything Intel based then yeah, it almost just works, except the i915 driver occasionally has huge regressions, Mesa sometimes has huge regressions, and the …
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MacOS looks like the best poison.
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Exactly. Lots of utilities which disable telemetry automatically are invasive as hell and sometimes break your Windows installation.
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MacOS doesn't have 95% of the listed issues. And we don't have any other desktop OSes which are ready for prime time.
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I'm not a fanboy of any OS in existence but 1. Most tech-illiterate people are afraid of using regedit and/or GPO to disable Cortana so the point is valid. 2. Disk fragmentation has become a…