Ganni1987: 1) Linux is more secure than Windows for a reason, most software are found in the distro's dedicated repositories, it's open source and there's quality over quantity. Simply put most Linux software is delivered in a different way than Windows.
2) While partially true, Windows 7 had far less contact with the online world. Windows 8 was were it started showing it's teeth and this is shown right after a fresh installation where it asks you if you want to set "Express Settings" (aka Lack of privacy mode) or "Customize Settings" where it gives you the option to turn these features on/off.
3) "At such reduced performance", The difference in some games is much less than you make it seem like and it's far from an uninstall.
4) The software I suggested is from a reputable company, the link is from their official site.
5) I'll correct myself on the Windows Updates: The familiar options from Windows 7/8 can be found in the Group Policy Editor guide
here.
1. FTP servers can and do get hacked that is why most post a checksum but in some cases like when apache was hacked the checksum on webpage was changed too to match infected binaries.
Open source doesn't always mean safe so few actually look through the code (while back there was huge exploit that looked inserted into linux kernal discovered that needed to be fixed) or compile it. Sourceforge had a huge influx of 'open source' projects with infected binaries
2. Do you not have a firewall/router? You can literally check block all traffic and if you change windows 10 settings it actually blocks all the contacts with microsoft servers except updates.
3. Less is still not none. Some people can tolerate 10 fps... tolerating it and enjoyability are not the same.
4. All those such privacy tools just change the system registry which you can do by hand.
Biggest one is to disable Telemetry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection
Again it is all there for advance users it just hidden from people that know little about windows.
Ganni1987: It does require some tweaking if you want it to work the way you want.
Fully agree with nix systems you have to do more tweaking like compling the drivers you want to use into the kernal so to improve performance instead of loading them.
Good luck explaining kernal recompliation to someone that doesn't want to use windows registry. You think those same people are custom to make utilities and using compilers?
ZeroDrm: I wasn't arguing that DX12 does not work fine or that B1 doesn't look amazing with all settings maxed. My point is that "DX12 support" means little when developers are making the game with DX11 in mind and then do a quick and dirty job for 12.
You must be new to windows same arguement was made for dx 9 to dx10 now those people can't live without dx10+
