No going back!

[Metanis]

This take appears to be based purely on opinion without grounding in facts. MS baked edge into the OS again, and the OS's telemetry system can send browsing data. And if enabled, can be used to recommend 3rd party apps. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/optional-diagnostic-data

That's not even to mention other things like have, like advertising ID so that 3rd party apps can track your interesting and so that targeted content can be shown in the newsfeed.

Somewhere recently I read that perhaps Americans don't take privacy so seriously because we grew up being the target of marketing and sales campaigns.

Man you should watch US commericials on old broadcast channels like ME-TV. It's a constant barrage of ads for stuff that Seniors will find interesting. So targeted advertising isn't all that new to us.

I'm not saying it's right, just that it's not so compelling an issue for some of us.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Somewhere recently I read that perhaps Americans don't take privacy so seriously because we grew up being the target of marketing and sales campaigns.

Man you should watch US commericials on old broadcast channels like ME-TV. It's a constant barrage of ads for stuff that Seniors will find interesting. So targeted advertising isn't all that new to us.

I'm not saying it's right, just that it's not so compelling an issue for some of us.

It's not a compelling issue... at all. Right up until it is, then it's the most important thing in the world.

The average American is terribly behaved and educated in many ways, this is just one of them. And a specific place I'm personally tired of screaming about. I just get paid to clean up the messes the systemic ignorance creates.

 

[Choppie]

@HCHTech,

We have a very great deal in common. I will not accept any Mac where hardware repair is needed, and never will. I have a few clients who have Macs where I have to help out with things like getting their new WiFi printer up and running and talking to the Mac or doing an OS upgrade, but every time I have to touch a Mac I feel trepidation.

Everything about MacOS feels "entirely backward" to me. Even though I don't use Linux all that often, I don't have that same feeling about it. I just know that "The Apple Way" has felt wrong, completely wrong, to me for a very long while.

On my last two, 3-year enlistments in the NAVY, I was stationed on shore duty at NAS Key West, FL, this put it around 1985 ish. Bought my first computer at the NAVY exchange store; Pakard Bell 8086 486dx with a DX2 processor along with an EPSON LQ570 Plus dot matrix printer (don't ask me how I remember that, I couldn't tell you). Looking at the other computers on display, some Apple computers were there. Compared to the DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.11, the Apple computers looked completely STUPID! Like toys for little kids! I put my hand on that square block of plastic they called a mouse and it felt like the dumbest idea ever, no mouse buttons just push the front down to "click"! Was painful to put my hand on it! The smooth "putty color" MS mouse felt and worked awesome! I vividly remember standing there thinking....WTF is Apple thinking!

HOWEVER: A nice few-year-old Mac Book pro running Linux Mint Cinnamon is pretty awesome....

 

[Blues]

Thanks for the input and yeah for the emulation thing that was thinking along the lines of a console style dedicated system not my daily driver really. I should look at Mint again I have toyed with it particularly with old hardware but felt off when using it and I haven't tried Zorin yet so I need to get some testing up and going with them again.

For command line it will be different in that the commands are different but I started with Windows 3.1 when most apps and lots of things we still done from DOS which is what you booted to back them so I'm comfortable with it plus I run a headless Plex Media server NAS from a Raspberry Pi atm.