I am very far from being a child ( I’m over 70 and I probably have grandchildren of your age) and I know very well what is expected of the operating systems. What is childish is consider a system better than others, forgetting that this is always dependent on the opinions and needs of the individual.

I have used both, Windows as well as different distros of Linux, and I know very well the advantages and limitations of both. You forget that many corporate applications and professional ones (games apart) do only exist for Windows, with alternatives poor in Linux or just work poorly with Wine or in virtual environment.

Linux certainly has many advantages over Windows, but it has a big problem of a huge amount of different distros, not always compatible with each other, being apart (still) in general a minority system, with little presence in the market, and also a presence of less the availability of software, far from the amplitude of catalogues for Windows, even in respect of FOSS and FLOSS. Linux has advantages in field-specific uses, Windows, apart from its defects, is in the global scope. It’s very easy to say “use Linux” (Qu’ils mangent de la brioche) to someone who needs to use Windows for some reasons, instead of the way to get rid of the problems which he has with it.

But keep saying that the registry is of no importance, and with the following phrase that Windows stops working when something wrong is deactivated or deleted in one of the entries, just what I said before, this is childish and shows your “great knowledge” about how Windows works.

Cheers

Agree, it’s not recommended to edit the registry when you don’t know exactly what you’re doing, less in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, it’s very easy to have to re-install the OS because of an total crash.

The hellzerg Optimizer is FOSS and well known since years, do not confuse with proprietary tools, like those from IObit or Ashampoo, these are certainly not recommended. Anyway, also with the default Windows GodMode you can do a lot, also with the Regedit, if you know well what you do (somewhat risky)

It isn’t, I use currently W11 24H2 with less than 0,9GB on disk, no unwanted nettraffic shown in Portmaster. Full BOOT in less than 5 seconds and snappy responses. No problems with it, no unwanted apps in the updates or other issues. This certainly wasn’t the case as default in my new laptop. Well “un-microsofted” Windows, not even with it’s original UI.

Yes, as said, the problem isn’t the OS as is, it’s all the crap, spy- and bloatware which M$ put in it.

Yes, you can modify your property to your like, Windows needs your consents, not the other way arrount.

There are no need of subscriptions in Portmaster, it’s FOSS. Well, the subscription is only if you want to use additional also the inbuild SPN service (optional service), which need an paid subscription like any good VPN (server cost money). I Prefer to use Portmaster over Pi-Hole, because Portmaster permits per app settings, Pi-Hole don’tm apart is way easier to setup, with already a good default settings, its almost download it, run install and peace. Then maybe open it, browse your listed apps and block their traffic if needed with an click.

I use Portmaster, there go nothing in or out without my permissions.

Well, there are several methodes, WinX is one of the options and naturally can’t be OpenSource, because Windows isn’t, even not in this debloated version. As you said, there are several FOSS tools to do it, maybe the best is the hellzerg Optimizer, very capable to eliminate the bad Windows habits and apart improving the system-

Windows as is, is a valid, fast and private OS. The lack is that it is by default a bundleware, full of telemetries, spyware, services which nobody needs, trials and other crap “to improve the user experience”. All this can be gutted by an advanced user. The alternastive for those which need use Windows, is to install one of the WindowsX series, an independent modification and optimization, without all these M$ crap.

Watching YT works fine on desktop in the SMplayer or searching the Video with Andisearch and watch it there in the search result, sandboxed with random proxy.

FOSS is already stale for a long time by large corporations (Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, X, etc), all of these with own developments of FOSS, these are not affected by this cuts for OpenSource proyects, but small startups, individual devs and small companies and oprganisations. It’s not against FOSS, it’s about control and clear against freedom.

Fuck the US https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/eu-oss-catalogue

Make America great again

The TOR network is certainly pretty secure, but it’s always advisible to use it in the Onion not without an additional layer, at least with a good VPN. Anyway I think that the future is in a descentralized web (I2P, Hyphanet, Snowflake, Shadowsocks and similar), the normal Internet is to heavy controlled by big companies and govs.

Don’t confuse TOR with security, you can get exposed to use the Onion without an additional encrytion layer or VPN. TOR cannot encrypt the traffic between an exit relay and the destination server.

More exactly by Defense and secret services

no-knowledge means that they only can share the encrypted data (AES 256), they don’t know the content and can’t share it, even with an court order. Only the user itself can do it the company only can give an 🤷‍♂️🖕

Filen offers 10GB for free, encrypted, no-knowledge, OpenSource, made in the EU

It is a big difference to confuse the lack of privacy when an gov can access userdata in the case of an court order with the lack of privacy when private companies can spread and sell userdata. The difference is the right of the user to access and delete his data, which exists by law in the EU, but not in the USA. The EU is far from perfect, but lightyears better in questions of privacy

Microsoft US

Microsoft EU

Nothing new, never thought that Bluetooth is a safe connection, this is why I always use devices with cable (keyboard, mouse, headphones…). It’s somewhat less comfortable as with Bluetooth, but way more safe and stable.