Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October
dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yet another reminder that alternatives, where your privacy is not for sale, and your hardware belongs to you, actually exist in 2024
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 months ago
That’s a really good summary of the degradation of software throughout time and the path to recreate software for the people. Thanks for sharing.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Thanks - I love that video and I share it all the time. It gets across the whole idea of why Free (libre) software is important without preaching, and (as you point out) with a reminder that it wasn’t always this way.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What do you recommend?
Supermariofan67@programming.dev 4 months ago
Framework
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which OS to go with it?
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you want “Apple-like” look and feel, KDE Neon, Ubuntu, or Pop_OS! are good first Linux distros to start with.
mx_smith@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I am running Kubuntu on mine
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Framework only officially supports Fedora and Ubuntu. And Ubuntu is the only distro that I will tell you not to use so…Fedora.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I think Fedora is pretty great. It offers a lot of packages and ships updates quickly, has good performance, doesn’t include much crap, is pretty good security-wise and lets you choose between many desktop environments. There are even more stable and secure immutable versions like Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite and others, along with forks of it like Universal Blue and the distros that are based on it like Bazzite, Aurora, Bluefin or Secureblue.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 months ago
Linux distro of your choice
Waffelson@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can fix it instead of buying a new one, it’s not like Apple
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Elementary is a very polished and user friendly linux distribution designed to familiar to MacOS users.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 4 months ago
With the slightly massive caveat that you can’t upgrade to newer versions without a nuke and pave.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Any decent laptop for hardware. ElementaryOS for the OS, if you really want the look/feel of macos.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Roger
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 months ago
I did for a bit, but I’m not a fan of the macos ui, so it wasn’t for me.
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ubuntu or Pop OS use GNOME by default which is similar to macOS
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Pop!_OS won’t use GNOME for much longer. They’re currently developing their own desktop called COSMIC.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Zorin is a Ubuntu-derived distro that has multiple desktop managers built in, including one that mimics macOS.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 4 months ago
A lot of the laptops made by Huawei and Xiaomi are MacBook-like in design at least. Framework is much more repairable though as are business laptops from HP or Dell. Dell in particular has made some quite long battery life laptops in the past like the Latitude 7410 and 7400, though those aren’t particularly new they are at least cheap when bought second hand.
In terms of OS you got to go with some Linux flavor as they offer various DEs some of which are mac like. Obviously macOS and Linux terminals are somewhat similar anyway.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I would not, in good conscience, ever recommend a Dell machine to anyone anymore. Not only the design and build quality have gone down catastrophically, but Dell would take literally every opportunity they have to fuck you over.
XPS machines in particular have a solid history of being good on paper, but a nightmare, once you ever need to contact them about issues
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 4 months ago
XPS aren’t business machines, just premium consumer machines. They aren’t built to the same standard, as would honestly be expected given they cost less. I’ve had my own bad experiences with an XPS laptop and wouldn’t buy one again. Too many compromises in the name of being thin and lightweight.
To be honest I was more suggesting second hand machines where warranty from the OEM isn’t really a consideration.
I think you will find most OEMs don’t really care about customer support unless you are a business. HP, Asus, and friends all have their own horror stories. There are only a few companies like Framework I actually trust.
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 4 months ago
We’re about to buy a few new laptops at work. My boss is hardcore Dell fan, I need to prove him it’s no better than anything else on the market.
I’m suggesting either Thinkbook (cheap option, comparable specs cost 2/3 of Dell) or Probook/Elitebook which are still considerably cheaper than Dell in my country.
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 4 months ago
Not until Linux comes pre-deployed on gaming laptops for sale. That’s my market.
Before you ask, I don’t have the know-how to boot into Linux, and I need the portability of a laptop. As well as enjoying gaming to an extent. Pretty niche.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
We already have the Steam deck, and SteamOS just got official support for third-party hardware. I don’t think it will take that long until we see gaming laptops or mini PCs preloaded with SteamOS.
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 4 months ago
Yeah, that would work I guess.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
it’s for corporations to deploy on all their worker drones’ workstations
Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wish they would do a much better job of distinguishing corporate workstation versions of Windows and Home versions of Windows. Put all this MS ecosystem garbage on the workstation version, and make the Home version a stripped down to the essentials OS. Which is what most of us try to do with tools like ShutUp10, anyway.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ironically, in reality it’s the exact opposite. The home version is pumped to the brim with this dogshit, while the Enterprise version is stripped to the bare necessities. They likely know that other corporations have the balls to sue them for all kinds of reasons
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I get ads on my workstation. Its fun. I cant remove them without getting permission from the IT department. Meanwhile my home computers have no ads at all.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
i’ll do you one better: all PCs at my job are running win10 LTSC, which was meant for specific use cases like running neon signs and shit
Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And even for that cases it’s bloated as fuck.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How long before there’s a discovery request for all recall data for a time period and companies start screaming about the risks with recall?
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
this comment veers pretty close to implying that upper and middle management know a single goddamn thing about tech or cybersecurity
GenXLiberal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Agreed - if I were evil, I would use this data to look for long periods of static/unchanging desktop screenshots to look for inactivity and employees lying about being there or away.
Honestly this is just an arms race. If the above happens (and if I can come up with that use case think about what will come up when someone actually smart thinks about it.)
The response? I’d make a tool that presses alt-tab every 15 seconds a random number of times - to both keep the computer alive and change the desktop view, maybe move the windows around a bit for variety. A usb rubber ducky would be perfect for this.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Agreed. But if big brother really wants, they can detect a weird program running, a weird hardware being on it, or just that someone is tabbing around without actually doing something.