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by echohack5 745 days ago
Death by a thousand cuts. Microsoft Recall in a vacuum isn't the issue, but rather a decade of

- Forced Cortana (oops no let's shut that down) - Forced OS Updates (oops your computer doesn't have the requirements) - Ads in your start menu - "Yes" and "maybe later" interactions everywhere - Edge force defaulting itself on occasion - Literally needing configuration management to run powershell on a daily cadence because settings might not get respected - 5 Layers of failed UI frameworks duct taped together

Basically Windows is becoming such a bear to wrangle that you might as well use Linux and save yourself the pain and $100 per computer.