• myyass@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Microslop is a security risk. An OS with a backdoor isn’t useful for anything but gaming.

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        2 days ago

        I know, but I still do classes and they require you use garbage software. Eventually I’ll get it sorted out.

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          2 days ago

          It might be worth checking if there’s really no alternative. I intend to do that for my son; his school requires Windows, but he’s starting to get increasingly annoyed by Windows (his laptop has Win11) so I want to check with the school why exactly Windows is so essential. Presumably, most is Web, so will work just fine on Linux. Specific software may have a Linux version, run fine on Wine, or have an open source alternative.

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            2 days ago

            I know and for the most part that’s how it is. Some of the classes still want to use Respond-ass. Which I just end up going to the school library for. If I have to use Win11, I will just run a VM. That OS has been a nightmare.

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        3 days ago

        Only because changing the OS compared to stopping a transition to an insecure Microsift cloud service is a much greater task, one that is in progress as well.

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        2 days ago

        Some anticheat systems require a backdoor. If those are games you want to play, you have to submit to it. Personally I see it as a reason to avoid those games, but if you really want to play them, you may not have a choice. Apart from pressuring the publisher to support saner anticheat and Linux.

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        3 days ago

        I don’t and it sounds like I might not have to soon. Mslop had us by the balls for long enough.