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Windows Recall is secretly installed and enabled on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) (www.youtube.com)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

FWIW I was worried this might be on W10 (hey, they might try it) so I tried the >dism commands found earlier in this thread (thanks btw!) & got “Feature name Recall is unknown”.

Safe for now

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I've been running Pop!_OS with the Cinnamon desktop environment on my machine at home for the past 3 months. I'm very impressed with the out-of-the-box experience. All my games run in Steam or Lutris.

Fuck Microsoft.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

For me the same, but with kubuntu. Linux is really ready to be used as a desktop.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This is why win10 in a vm

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Proton is a better option unless the game needs Anti-Cheat, which most won't work in a VM, anyway

Personally I dual boot Win10 LTSC with fake credentials and some privacy tweaks for games that need to be on windows

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I've tested it, and while it does work, there are some issues:

The anti-cheat doesn't work for all games (delta force demo).
Sometimes i had strange sound glitches.
I had to use a second mouse. In certain games where you drag the camera (like Sins of a Solar Empire), the camera spins uncontrollably fast.
It's not as fast or responsive, but good enough.
Game Pass games don't run.

Because of these points, I still keep Windows 10 as a dual boot option.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I only play games that work native or via proton. I just use windows for the CAD programs that i need to use. I do gpu pass through and native for my host system idk how this would be for gaming tho.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I have heard, though not tried, that GPU passthrough works for those diminishingly few problematic games where a certain anti-cheat is the sticking point.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Keep in mind that this doesn't necessarily mean that recall itself is actually doing recall stuff or even running a process (I haven't checked if it does but not necessarily) like it would on a copilot laptop.

It is however very stupid that you can't uninstall recall without messing up the file Explorer. My guess is that it's a bug or some weird dependency needed with explorer.exe that handles the file explorer and a bunch of other stuff like the desktop and taskbar. It could also be spying but this seems like a stupidly obvious way to do it if they wanted too.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Even on Pro or Enterprise editions? I can't imagine businesses tolerating this never mind governments.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Did not show up on my work laptop running Win 11.

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