The Windows 11 Apocalypse thread

[Skybird]

In this thread I will occasionally unsystematically post info and videos on the unfolding security and privacy desaster that Windows 11 is. Some poeple may not be aware of things like Copilot and Recall, and why they are so totally unacceptable. With Windows 10's days counted at least regarding updates, some people sooner rather than later will consider to go Windows 11, others may buy a new machine and get it as a free toxic preinstalled suicide bonus.

Myself, I was stunned with disbelief when I learned the first horrifying details about Windows 11's safety and privacy meltdown. I have buried all plans to ever buy a new machine for Windows use again, which will dramatically chnage and in parts delete my ability to play the sims I like, namely racing sims, flight sims and PC-based VR. I will get a new gaming rig once the need is there, but tailored to the needs of gaming under Linux, because Windows 11 is totally and completely unacceptable to me even if here in the EU certain legislation may and already have been released forcing Microsoft to compromise some of its totalitarian wet dreams. But who said they comply? There are already reports on that they lie and do not comply at all, but hollow out the new rules released in August this year.

With Recall at the latest Microsoft has overstepped the last thin red line for me, I am fed up with Microsoft. It led to the number of Windows 11 users declining over this year (!!) by either going back to Windows 10 - or migrating to Linux or Apple. Windows 11 and Recall is a great marketing strategy of Microsoft to push people over to Linux, the move is already happening.

I can only warn everybody to embark on Windows 11 or to carelessly accept Recall. And that you should not trust the cheating words and candy-glossed lies of Microsoft you should know yourself by now.

"Personal" Computers are dead. Windows is dead. That simple it is.

If you hear of this for the first time: Recall is a default-activated and mandatory "service" that creates screenshots of your screen every 5 seconds and stores these on your HD, exposing them to criminal hackers who attack your machine as well as allows remote-analysis by Microsoft' well-meaning AI tools. It snot just screenshots being stored, but the content of these screenshots in image and text and formula gets analysed by AI - and extracted, if MS sees an interest to do so, obviously. PIN numbers and sensitive data and texts you enter get analysed. Intimate communications you trade with a partner get analysed. Confidential customer or patient files get analysed. Data you may need to keep confidential for legal reasons if you are a lawyer or doctor etc will get analysed.

Its the total transparency and surveillance of yourself. And its mixed into the code of file explorer, you cannot delete the code of Recall and being done with it, they force you to accept its presence by trying to make it undeletable. You cannnot easily find it insettings of Windows (in the EU they need to make it "deactivatable" and they must offer it as an opt-in, not opt-out like in other parts of the world. But do you trust Microsoft that they do not secretly - or accidentally, "oooops, we apologize for our mishap" - activate it again? Or hammer the activation button secretely with every update they install?

You cannot trust Microsoft. They want total control over all data on your computer, that is their goal, you should not have any illusions there.

Go Linux. Serious. Because now the situation really becomes threatening. For your safety. For your privacy,. For your legal situation. You can violate privacy laws and rules of confidentiality if you work in certain professions and use this OS.

Gaming is said to have become quite good under Linux, with things like Proton Steam. I will investigate that.