... and much much more being sent by default to Microsoft servers (and also, as of Windows 11, on occasion directly to third parties !). This is even the case on enterprise editions of Windows (though in an actual well-administered company network most of those would be disabled through GPOs), too.
And sure, there are ways to opt out. But it doesn't disable all telemetry, and moreover there's no guarantee some windows update won't re-eenable all or part of it (it's certainly happened in the past).
Even that isn't universally true anymore, too. With dxvk/proton it's like a 50% chance it'll run fine on day one (and that's for the AAA games with DRM; unity games and the like are more like 100%, also day one).
True. I've found the number of things I either can't do or that require a lot of fiddling to make work pretty low - totally worth dealing with to escape the Microsoft ecosystem.
Also a very happy having...
... and much much more being sent by default to Microsoft servers (and also, as of Windows 11, on occasion directly to third parties !). This is even the case on enterprise editions of Windows (though in an actual well-administered company network most of those would be disabled through GPOs), too.
And sure, there are ways to opt out. But it doesn't disable all telemetry, and moreover there's no guarantee some windows update won't re-eenable all or part of it (it's certainly happened in the past).
At this point Windows is genuinely malware.
-T. Windows User
Even that isn't universally true anymore, too. With dxvk/proton it's like a 50% chance it'll run fine on day one (and that's for the AAA games with DRM; unity games and the like are more like 100%, also day one).
True. I've found the number of things I either can't do or that require a lot of fiddling to make work pretty low - totally worth dealing with to escape the Microsoft ecosystem.