Does THIS Ease Your Mind About Windows Recall?

Today we look at some Windows updates and the new changes to 24H2. We also see another borked update and a massive change to Windows Recall.
#windows #recall #linux

00:00 - Intro
01:30 - A Borked Update WARNING
07:05 - Updates in 24H2
12:30 - The Recall Update
14:45 - Why I'm Not Going Back to Windows

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[nostalgianinja]

What stays behind after uninstall? I personally don't feel welcome in an operating system that's actively hostile towards me.

[BWGPEI]

Switching to Linux for us was firstly a learning experience, and secondly an exercise in personal data security. We have few regrets to making the switch, and much happiness in being able to use Linux Mint to do our daily tasks like reading Email, loading MP3 players and so on. Must admit that the lower cost of SSDs and the multi-boot aspects of Grub have enabled me to continue my computer hobby during my retirement.

[OutLanderUSN]

I'm gonna keep a windows partition for those rare occasions I decide to play something like Battlefield or CoD with my buddies. Outside of that, I'm not doing a damn thing on Windows on my personal computer.

[LTPottenger]

Autoupdates are not just a threat to computer security but to freedom and gives the ability to turn you off or slow you down at any time, and AI on the PC combined with constant spying means the state can find exactly who disagrees with them.

[edison]

Moved to Linux. Dont care what spyware Widoz uses.

[NotRealNamesAgain]

I haven't used Windows for years, but I AM looking forward to servicing all my customer's machines, and asking Copilot/Recall "what's my favorite category of porn" and learning MUCH more about my customers.

[richardkenan]

I switched to Linux Mint a couple of months ago. There have been some struggles, both with learning to do stuff and with things that just seem not possible under Linux, but mostly I live my Linux life without regrets.

I'd happily pay Microsoft a reasonable fee to keep my Windows operating as I like. Given how (or not) I upgrade to new Windows version, I feel like they'd get more money out of me for $30 a year than for pay for each upgrade. But they want control, and are harming my user experience in order to squeeze more money out of me by selling my data and upsell me services I don't want. No. Just no. I took the bitter pill of abandoning everything I knew about using my computer to switch operating systems. Good job Microsoft, now you get nothing from me.

[rickardstrom]

Recall needs to be fully purged, not 'uninstalled' or 'opted in', and prevented from being downloaded with any update. Any organization, be it private or public, can't possible accept anything less. Maybe an Enterprise edition will address this fully.

[metalfiregametime]

At about 3:30 when you mentioned the van I remembered "matt foley motivational speaker" from SNL. So far I have been loving the Arch based distros :)

[strayzilla]

Windows for gaming, Linux for everything else. I finally downgraded from Win 11 to Win 10 this morning.

[ringo]

Nope, but the funny thing is: the damage is done. Even if Microsoft doesn't renege on its promises to get rid of the more repellent aspects of Recall, a lot of people rightly won't trust a word they say. They've damaged a lot of whatever trust they have left for this stupid gimmick. Real genuises out there in Redmond.

[BeckyAnn]

I'm concerned, even with uninstalling Recall, it'll be reinstalled with a future update.
I remember people making Chrome or Firefox their default browser and then a version update resets Edge to the default browser.

[kenlen]

Using Windows for the first time in 5-6 days after using Mint daily. It feels sh*t honestly. I didn't notice how slow it was and how much noisier this old computer sounds running Windows. I like your point about running Linux off a portable hard drive. I don't think people realize how easy it is to JUST TRY IT. They aren't going to lose anything.

[rato]

one point! the Gov. has access to all computer's via the BIOS chip, it holds at lease 3 programmes,
one for the PC/Mac, one for breaking some systems and one for spying

[ronaldkarp]

Eased Mind over Recall? I don't understand why it was rolled out the way it was. Between that and Bitlocker, it forced me to look at Mint again. Very slick. Have come a long ways. For the average home user, it's brilliant, light on it's feet and lots of optional Apps that install / uninstall easily without residual registry clog (I think). USB Clonzilla'd the old operating system off to the side, and loaded Linux Mint. The install seen my network printer and set up the scanning software. So many options and so intuitive. Between Libre Office, Thunderbird Mail and The Edge browser - for the average user, it's a done did deal for me.

[TwstedTV]

Some people who have tested the beta version says, its just a false sense of security. When a user installs recall, it just tells windows to hide it from view and process view
and continue to work in the background. I am so glad Valve is continuing to improve PROTON for Linux. So I can continue to play games, but on Linux.
More and more AAA gaming companies are porting their games to Linux, which is great for everyone.
I use Ableton on Windows, but since I moved to Vanilla Debian Linux as my daily driver, I purchased BitWig, since BitWig works on linux and works just like Ableton Live.
Also the developers of BitWig are the original developers of Ableton Live anyways. So glad BitWig has a native version for Linux.
I am not using windows 11 or any other windows after it. I don't trust windows anymore.

[Jc-bc]

Windows Wednesday, but this Thurday, lol.

[CraigRodmellMusic]

No it doesn't. The mere fact that Recall exists AT ALL is the big worry. Though not for me. I made up my mind years ago that I was moving to Windows 10 offline on one machine and Linux on my other two. As I write, I'm trying out Linux distros for the two that I will be converting.

[peterjansen]

Do I feel good about some tool making a screenshot of everything that I do? Hell no! 😆I saw a few video's about people moving from Windows to Linux for this very reason. Welcome to the club.

[NYCamper]

Well since I'm not upgrading 10 to 11 then I'd say no.
More concerned about Mint 22 & Wayland atm.