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  • You have granular control over universal windows apps (ie windows 8+ apps) and one global lock over all desktop apps (non uwp), and one global lock over everything. It's pretty solid considering how little control Microsoft has and it's wonderful fetish for compatibility.

    Tldr basically same as Linux, except app distribution in Linux was bad enough for so long that more stuff is in the new restricted format while windows still has tons of things which will never go away and aren't in the sandbox. I think not finding a way to sandbox all desktop apps was a mistake.

  • Signal is an objectively better experience than xmpp, and has about identical security (same with matrix). Irc isn't secure afaik. Telegram isn't secure afaik.

    A better wish would be that people in 2024 would stop being fuckign weird about their cell number. Some people don't want to give it out despite white pages being the standard for years (and how the Terminator knows who to kill). Other people refuse to use a messaging app where they can't use their phone to sign up. Some people want to sign up with their number but not give it out.

  • Matrix or xmpp, bonus points with a personal server

    Thanks to interest of late, the conversations and gajim apps have come a long way in recent years, and matrix has made good strides too with element-x

  • So tldr, since you didn't finish your thought, is that they got a grant like 3+ layers down, from the US government.

    I have some news for you, or perhaps I can offer you a bridge.

  • I didn't notice or care about their comment, it was meaningless bs. Yours is something for which it's feasible to provide evidence, it's a novel claim, and I saw nothing to back it up other than hostility.

    That the switch to linux has a lot of friction? That it's difficult?

    Everyone mostly agrees on this, not interesting. Also you didn't even directly claim this in your post, so obviously I wasn't asking about this. You're just seemingly using this hostile badgering approach to stifle the conversation.

    That Microsoft has deliberately cultivated that friction?

    This is the interesting claim. After all Linux deliberately shoots its legs off every few years, why does Microsoft need to help?

  • A good amount of Linux distros don't seem to want to get the basics down. Constant churn vs stable but way out of date is more how is describe the choice, while windows at it's core is actually a pretty stable platform. I don't have to, for example, get annoyed at Firefox middle mouse scroll not working because I forgot this distro still defaults to x11 even though it installs Wayland too blah blah blah.