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Windows 10 LTSB
| >Trusting proprietary software
I kind of sympathize with people who look at things like LTSB. Their heart is in the right place, but they're not there yet. Use BSD or GNU/Linux.
| >>383125 wine needs some improvement x11 is kinda clunky and the average user is scared of the command line
| If we can fix all that I'm sure we could take over the desktop
| >>383148 >>383149
>wine needs some improvement
What do you think wine developers do? The main issue is, that they have to reverse engineer stuff, especially DirectX. If game developers would use OpenGL instead of DirectX things would be much more easy for non-windows users.
>X11 is kinda clunky
X11 is pretty old, but i wouldn't say "clunky". Wayland is very promising but still has compatibility issues with proprietary graphic card drivers.
It's all a big fail in economic-politics.
| >>383148 >>383149
>the average user is scared of the command line
Because the average user only knows the windows command line. I'm pretty scared by this one too althought I'm working with a command line on a regular basis.
>If we can fix all that I'm sure we could take over the desktop
I'm not. As I already wrote it's mainly a political-economic issue, not a technological one. Without mandatory free and open standards, there only will be proprietary mono- and oligopolies.
| >>383163 you're not entirely wrong but just to be sure I don't think open standards should be enforced by the government, though they themselves should use them
| The average user is scared of the command line because they don't understand it window Linux BSD doesn't matter they don't know what they're doing and have heard stories of people deleting all their data on accident from it
| >>383157 this is true and unfortunate for wine devs hopefully everyone moves to Vulcan because then we can use dxvk at least
I believe x11 doesn't have support for vsync if any kind, and the whole designed for servers thing is somewhat outdated, though I have to admit being able to open a gui program over ssh is pretty nice
| >>383122
>doesn't have ads, bloatware and telemetry
this is partially true. LTSB doesn't have any ads, and it does have much less bloatware/telemetry than other builds, but it still has some.
Even on LTSB if you set the telemetry level to 0 it says (Basic), not off.
That being said, if you need to use windows then ltsb is really the only version worth using.
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| >>383285 guys guys, want a life hack. You download simplewall, it's a firewall that actually does his job, you put him on, and now you don't have telemetry nor updates nor any spy from windows. Btw i was shocked when i discovered how many windows files wanted internet, but this great warrior does his job. And you don't need this lsd version, it works for any
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| Opinions? It seems that LTSB doesn't have ads, bloatware and telemetry.