The latest version of Intel Arc GPU Graphics Software introduced an interesting change that isn't reflected in the Release Notes. The installer of the 101.4578 beta drivers add a "Compute Improvement Program" (CIP) component as part of the "typical" setup option that is enabled by default. Under the...

Intel graphic drivers collect Telemetry By default in windows.

    • zampson@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Sometimes you want to play a specific game.

      For me, it’s QuickBooks that requires windows. I use Linux everywhere except on the bookkeeping machines for my business.

      I care about what’s being tracked on those machines for sure.

      • pkulak@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Tangent here for sure, but have you considered running QuickBooks in a VM? I’ve got a couple Windows-only apps myself, but I keep them wrapped in a VM that I only spin up when needed.

        I suppose, though, if you need to run them 9-5, there’s not much point.

        • zampson@lemm.ee
          2·
          11 months ago

          Yeah I am in and out of it constantly.

          I tried for a little while with VirtualBox on Ubuntu but just found it inconvenient.

    • Luvon@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’m not a windows fan. Far from it.

      If you want to accuse me of being Stockholmed at least get the ecosystem correct. I’m stockholmed by apple thank you very much 😂

      I disable telemetry, block telemetry, ads and trackers at a dns level; which I do no matter what OS I use and don’t worry about which games are supported on my system.

      I have a local account on windows and I use that computer for nothing but gaming.

    • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I tried Linux (Mint). It doesn’t even have colorblind modes. It threw weird problems into simple tasks. “Help” forums were full of threads condescending and trying to trick newbies into deleting the OS instead of, you know, helping. I hated the centralized launcher system compared to regular old .exe’s that you can download from websites that have much better info about what you’re downloading.

      Also gaming was too much a mess. But that was very far from the only problem with Linux.

      I do a hell of a lot of tinkering to make windows something approaching private, but it was nothing in comparison to the amount of unpredictable tinkering and extra time Linux demanded for my use cases. Ostensibly perfect privacy is just not worth it at all to me. I’ve got shit to do.