Intel graphic drivers collect Telemetry By default in windows.

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    1 year ago

    I still haven’t signed up my local windows account Into my Microsoft account, despite the nagging. I’ve opted out of everything I can and I have a encrypted, filtered dns to block tracking and ads system wide.

    Just because some people use windows doesn’t mean they are ok with being tracked everywhere.

    Unfortunately gaming is still just mostly easier on windows though Linux is making gains.

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        Sometimes you want to play a specific game.

        For me, it’s QuickBooks that requires windows. I use Linux everywhere except on the bookkeeping machines for my business.

        I care about what’s being tracked on those machines for sure.

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          Tangent here for sure, but have you considered running QuickBooks in a VM? I’ve got a couple Windows-only apps myself, but I keep them wrapped in a VM that I only spin up when needed.

          I suppose, though, if you need to run them 9-5, there’s not much point.

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            Yeah I am in and out of it constantly.

            I tried for a little while with VirtualBox on Ubuntu but just found it inconvenient.

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        I’m not a windows fan. Far from it.

        If you want to accuse me of being Stockholmed at least get the ecosystem correct. I’m stockholmed by apple thank you very much 😂

        I disable telemetry, block telemetry, ads and trackers at a dns level; which I do no matter what OS I use and don’t worry about which games are supported on my system.

        I have a local account on windows and I use that computer for nothing but gaming.

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        I tried Linux (Mint). It doesn’t even have colorblind modes. It threw weird problems into simple tasks. “Help” forums were full of threads condescending and trying to trick newbies into deleting the OS instead of, you know, helping. I hated the centralized launcher system compared to regular old .exe’s that you can download from websites that have much better info about what you’re downloading.

        Also gaming was too much a mess. But that was very far from the only problem with Linux.

        I do a hell of a lot of tinkering to make windows something approaching private, but it was nothing in comparison to the amount of unpredictable tinkering and extra time Linux demanded for my use cases. Ostensibly perfect privacy is just not worth it at all to me. I’ve got shit to do.

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      Yeah, I mean, I’m not telling anyone what they should do. If gaming is more important to you than privacy, game away, and don’t let anyone make you feel bad about it. Personally, it’s an easy call for me, mostly because so many games are playable now. There’s a few than I can’t run on Linux, and that’s fine, I just don’t play those. If no games ever worked… maybe that’s a harder call.