That’s actually an interesting point. But how do you ensure the same under Linux? Doesn’t Gnome or KDE also track recently opened files somehow?
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entwine413@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I know the obvious answer, but I’m pretty sure the mods will remove it.
lotharmatthaeus@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
entwine413@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
If you use a live ISO, then everything goes away when you turn the computer off.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Does it start with L?
entwine413@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Maybe so.
But seriously, if I don’t want Windows spying on me for a task, I wouldn’t use Windows for that task. There’s no way I could ever trust the modern Windows OS to not be monitoring me, regardless of the settings I’ve applied. And I’m a systems engineer with nearly 2 decades of Windows administration under my belt.
Unless you’re running an enterprise license, there’s telemetry shit you literally can’t turn off.
The beauty of a live ISO is that when you turn your computer off, there’s no trace left.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I don’t use Windows. There was even a time for Work where our enterprise CAD/CAM had a Linux version and I could run Linux on my workstation. Sadly they removed the GUI support, so we still can use it for batch processing CAD data, and the PLM system still has Linux