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Windows 10 is bad as it violates all your privacy.

  • YES, it is scandalous.

    Votes: 18 75.0%

  • No, I like it and I use it actively, now shut the fuck up you IT communist.

    Votes: 6 25.0%
  • Total voters
    24
PluMGMK said:
Are you gonna reset the poll? :? Vulkan is of course cross-platform, it's intended to be the successor to OpenGL. (Of course support in Mesa right now is limited to Intel chips, but I don't mind.)
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Reset the poll ? Why ?
Well, I've read many things about Vulkan, and about how it liberates your machine of the heavy tasks by directly communicating with the GPU, it is one of the things that excited me the most about DooM 4, new technologies making tasks lighter powering an astonishing action game.
I actually wonder if a Raspiberry Pi could use Vulkan, I yet have to make researches about it, but I have to admit it would be funny to run that Vulkan port of Quake on a RaspberryPi, I wonder if it would require less energy.
 
Because all the votes from the previous poll are still there, the only thing that's changed is the title. Unless that's what you want. :oops2:
 
Oh, I see Hunch finally corrected the poll update thingy. My bad, I was too used to it, okay, gonna reset it, thanks for the heads up.
 
Define "outrageous", because I think Windows 10 is

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Yes, this is problematic. I ain't voting till a less ambiguous adjective is chosen! :P
 
I'll let you guys in on a little secret: I actually have a Win10 partition in my PC.
Y'see, just before Record Day I bought the Solus Project on Steam, and only afterwards did I notice that the sysreqs included "Windows 7 64-bit or later" (I know, I'm an idiot. :boon:). The thing wouldn't work on Wine, and the latest Windows versions I had lying around were Vista 64-bit (too old) and 7 32-bit (too… few bits). It seemed my only recourse was to find my father's laptop with Win10 on it (which he hasn't used in ages), image the hard drive and use it in my own PC. The original plan was to just mount the image in a VM, but predictably that didn't cut it in terms of computing power. So I copied the image onto a real hard drive, and after struggling with the UEFI boot stuff for a while, I had (much to my chagrin :fou:) a working Windows 10 installation. This was my first time installing any Windows onto the bare metal of this machine since I built it back in 2014. I've only used the installation four or five times, just to play that game.
 
Well, I'll give you a warning, do not update with W10 Anniversary Update, it wipes out all non NTFS partitions in order to gain space, and it doesn't warn you, be aware.
 
Really? Has it happened to you, or did you read about it somewhere? Also, I'm guessing it's only partitions on the same physical disk? If so it doesn't matter to me because my Linux installations are on different disks.
 
PluMGMK said:
Really? Has it happened to you ?
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You dare to accuse me of using that flithy OS ? :lol: I know it is "filthy" I occasionally prefer to make a typo on the word.
PluMGMK said:
Did you read about it somewhere? Also, I'm guessing it's only partitions on the same physical disk? If so it doesn't matter to me because my Linux installations are on different disks.
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Yeah, It actually made it's way in my weekly newsletters
And it is ALL partitions on the same computer, whenever it detects it, it erases...
Danger ! Danger !
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Hmm, I'd like you to link me to the source. :mefiant:

But if it's true then that obviously means "Microsoft <3 Linux" is a big fat lie. :boon:
 
For… the love of… :boon:

So, if it's a new OS, I guess this is the "real" Windows 10 then. :P

(Also I suppose I'd be ineligible, since this copied installation is obviously unactivated)
 
PluMGMK said:
For… the love of… :boon:
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Yes...I can easily imagine the reaction one can have when facing such an inconvenient and untimely loss of data...
PluMGMK said:
So, if it's a new OS, I guess this is the "real" Windows 10 then. :P
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Mmmh... Indeed.
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PluMGMK said:
(Also I suppose I'd be ineligible, since this copied installation is obviously unactivated)
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Still, I advise the Plum to proceed with caution, the loss of time would be... Regrettable.
I already said it on the French forums but others might not be aware of it but, did you know that Windows 10 sends encrypted datas to Microsoft servers every five minutes and on unsecured ports ?
 
incognito said:
Yes, pardon me, Pirez has indeed an outrageous French accent.
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What do I have to do with this entire conversation? It's racial profiling all over again.
 
Well, if the data are encrypted anyway I guess it doesn't really matter whether the ports are secure or not.
But, as I said on the French forums, all we have to do is wait five years till someone leaks the private key, just like happened with Secure Boot! :P
 
Well, a system with unsecured ports open is a vulnerable system, subsequently, knowing this information 1337 hax0rs could put this information to good use, and infiltrate a computer.
The system is becoming a slicer's paradise.
 
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