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Microsoft Recall is MANDATORY on Windows 11 (youtu.be)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by hello_hello@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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TL;DR:

The Windows File Explorer is now dependent on Microsoft Recall being installed on Windows 11 24H2 editions and likely later.

This means that if you wish to use newer versions of the Window file explorer, you have to install recall on your system. Recall is a deeply-rooted, non-negotiable feature on all modern versions of Windows.

Solution

If you wish to strip out recall from your system, you are no longer able to use the built-in graphical file explorer and must use a third-party tool, and if you're not allowed to do that on the machine, then you are forced to have recall running on the system as it doesn't appear on any graphical settings pages.

The other solution is to prepare for transitioning into a free operating system such as GNU/Linux with distributions such as Linux Mint which is designed specifically for that transition. You can also run an older version of Windows and refuse to update.

Errata

Turns out that this issue has been exaggerated and that there are ways to disable co-pilot on Windows machines (or at the very least, command Windows to do so). Also it's debatable whether this program does any harm on non "copilot" computers but you can be the judge of that.

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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've dual booted for 8 years now. It's very handy for me, but it is not without its complications - The main one being Microsoft's illegal anticompetitive behaviour by making Windows regularly overwrite the boot entries, so I have to force a legacy boot to Linux so it can recreate its own entries.

The second one being that Microsoft doesn't abide by its own official NTFS specification, and will mark drives dirty when it shouldn't, forcing Linux to be careful and mark the drive as read-only unless you force it or boot back and make Microsoft re-unmark it.

If you want a Windows-y theme, I'd point to Plasma/KDE for your desktop type. Plenty of themes around too.

Honestly I've not had an issue with hardware drivers on Linux for a long time, that issue is largely historical. Except for nvidia graphics cards, which may prove a bit finicky depending on the model. Hardware which is very recent may take a while if they don't release official linux drivers.

As for software, obviously just check if your software has a Linux binary, if it does they're generally all-distro supporting these days.

A lot of games are Linux native now, but for other Games on Steam with Proton (or the more complex effort of running software in WINE), they have appDBs that list compatibility here: https://appdb.winehq.org/ and here: https://www.protondb.com/