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Posted July 10, 2016
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DaCostaBR: Can you? I think disabling updates isn't available on the Home edition, only on Pro or Ultimate, or so I heard.
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neurasthenya: Oh that's right, mine is Pro and I disabled the updates through the Group Policy.
I've had forgotten about the limitations of the Home Edition. -.-'
I have Home, and unless I'm mistaken, there's an option to defer updates.
Posted July 10, 2016
What a surprise that a lot of users who don't care about control and ownership are fine with the OS that does its best to take that away. Gotta have the latest shinies no matter the cost!

God dammit Microsoft, I used to staunchly defend you.
Post edited July 10, 2016 by ReynardFox
Posted July 10, 2016
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ReynardFox: What a surprise that a lot of users who don't care about control and ownership are fine with the OS that does its best to take that away.
Who said that they don't care?
Posted July 10, 2016
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neurasthenya: Who said that they don't care?
I did say a lot, not all, and I've experienced enough commentary on both Steam and Windows to see that plenty of people either don't care, or have their care reduced to apathy by the simple passage of time.
Posted July 10, 2016
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neurasthenya: Anyway, I agree that these policies suck, but I was asking purely on a technical level. Patch out the stupid new ecosystem policies and the OS is perfectly fine. In fact, you can configure most of the OS to suit your needs right now (disable automatic/mandatory updates, privacy settings, uninstall the useless apps, etc) .
Of course I'm perfectly able to hack some of the new shit in Win10, including completely blocking forced updates on Home or Pro versions. The fact is that there is a completely viable alternative to this shit, right now, and it's called Windows 7. The future, well, I don't think Microsoft will be a good bet for my computing future anymore...
Posted July 11, 2016
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snowkatt: linux continues to be a nonentity with 0.80% considering all the noise surrounding valve's steam machines and steam os is a tad surprising
There is one reason I can think about which could be partially responsible for that.

I tried starting the steam clients on both linux Mint and W7 but on my linux client i didn't get a message to participate in the survey after that on the Windows-Client I did.
Posted July 11, 2016
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neurasthenya: Who said that they don't care?
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ReynardFox: I did say a lot, not all, and I've experienced enough commentary on both Steam and Windows to see that plenty of people either don't care, or have their care reduced to apathy by the simple passage of time.
I upgraded for DX12, plus the additional RAM capabilities should I want to upgrade my RAM. DX12 alone is enough to make me not care if MS knows I look at porn every so often.
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