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You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users::Like it or not, the Windows Backup app installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is here to stay, with Microsoft calling it a "system component" that can't be

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I consider everyone still using Windows by now to be masochists of the worst kind.

Who would want to have backups of important files on a Microsoft server? Probably located in the USA, where it's contents are free game for the snooping agencies? If you are not a US citizen (and even that is no real protection) they will hoover every byte about you "just in case".

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I’m waiting for the inevitable Lemmy comment from an engineer or sys admin that tells me to install Linux.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

I mean you seem to understand the solution but keep doing it wrong anyway

[-] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Well I'm neither of those. I'm not a tech bro and I don't really understand computers well or what a tick tock does. I'm just an old dude who's been using standard desktop stuff since windows 3.1 and DOS before that.

You should install Linux unless you absolutely need either commercial architecture software or Excel for specific things.

MS is the devil and windows sucks balls. I use windows on a work machine and it is objectively worse than most Linux flavours.

Start on Mint or KDE Neon if you're coming from windows.

As they say, don't knock it till you try it.

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Windows has fallen billions must install TempleOS

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, it is only consequential. I mean, the guys know.

[-] jimbolauski@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well have you installed Linux yet?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Got it on some stuff in the house, but my daily driver another OS in the *nix family.

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Not masochists, just people with very different needs, privacy concerns and overall tech knowledge than you. Not sure why this is hard to understand by some folks.

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