I created this application after getting tired of seeing settings change for no apparent reason. Due to privacy concerns of how Microsoft is with their aggressive telemetry I decided to use this to make sure my settings stay in tact.
Damn, imagine never having used a sane OS in your life ever
Yep. Over a decade ago when I just started using Linux, somebody posted something on a forum that I have remembered ever since: “suddenly I realized that the software is on my side!”
Linux desktop is still a mess. Windows sucks but it’ll work out of the box and doesn’t require you to research motherboard drivers and gpus to work.
Nice try MSBot, this hasn’t been the case for a long time
What ever you say. I’m not getting into arguments with zealots. Last time a bazzite founder came to acknowledge my issues and the guy went 5 threads deep arguing with him 🤣.
You’re just off topic and being petty because you can’t follow a thread 🤣. Skill issue.
Don’t worry, I’m not here to claim you don’t have issues
Linux works out of the box when it comes with your system like Windows does.
The only reason the windows experience is that good is because the vendor did that motherboard/component research for you.
My system 76 was the worst laptop I’ve ever owned. Literally the only laptop I’ve ever sent back in my life.
What does “all known Windows privacy and telemetry settings” entail and mean?
Registry and group policy?
Is this sourced from a shared effort project of known stuff, or does this project track it’s own, and would need notice and updates of new settings?
It’s theoretically possible to extract all the GPO effected registry keys from the ADMX files Microsoft releases, but yeah, I have serious doubts that any tool like this will be able to just detect and track every distinct setting. Let alone accurately identify what each does. I’m sure there’s at least one setting that’s been carried over from the “stuff it in an .ini in a system folder” days.
But if there is some community sourced list for settings, where they’re stored, and how they work that would be amazing!
I will only use windows in a VM without networking, it will get only shared folder that it can’t write to but can read from.
And even then, if i absolutely 100% can’t run it through bottles/proton and alternatives do not work either.
