I prefer GoG. Just download an installer and play the game that way. I don't need a launcher or game manager.

It's an external requirement in many cases. For contractual or legal reasons they need AV software on all machines, if it makes sense or not.

It's how utter crap like McAffee survives. It may be shit, but it fulfils a business need. Checks the box.

Ahh, yes the UID checks out. Most slashdotters these days probably don't even know who Bill Gates was.

Exactly. This irrational trust in Microsoft "because they are powerful" is completely deranged.

What a stupid and disconnected comment. You are deeply stuck in the past and it is not a good look.

Europe has that. If is not cost-effective at the moment, but moving closer to it costs very little in comparison to the gains. Also remember that Europe has, for example, ASML and Zeiss and that Europe educates a lot of good engineers. Replacing ASML and Zeiss alone would take a moon-landing type project at this time. And as soon as you leave the MS crap behind, you are not tied to specific hardware anyways.

Same here, no thanks. Defender is just a waste of CPU cycles. If you configure a Linux "desktop" the way UN*X was intended no need for an AV.

Plus the title should be "Microsoft Defender Now Supports Linux systemd Desktops".

I dunno...

You have a point about parental control, but the reality is that most of a child's waking time is away from the parents in state-mandated schooling. And I strongly suspect that the supervision schools use on their students is much less strict than the direct supervision that parents would use on their own kids.

For example, should we keep guns, alcohol, and tobacco out of the hands of children, or should we rely on the parents to impose rules?

We teach children to swim, but we also make people put fences around their swimming pools.

It makes sense to put restrictions on some of the obvious dangers kids might find in their environment.

I actually toned it down by not naming the specific politician.

I know a few people in the government space that do IT security exactly for this. Yes, FOSS gets reviewed as well before it goes into critical places. That review is just a lot easier.

Exactly. They used the nuclear option because the convicted felon wanted it. And now everybody is very intent on making sure they cannot use it again. On the plus side, this will create a lot of local business and long-term will pay of economically as well because suddenly, with FOSS, its is not closed systems anymore. Reminds me a bit of the right-to-repair discussion.

The trigger was blocking several accounts at the international court of law. I think Microsoft may regret that dearly now. But all it really did was make the problem strikingly obvious.

When the US was attacked, we sent our children to die in one of your foreign wars.

When WE were attacked, the largest war in the continent since World War II, you abandoned us - even witholding things that cost you *literally nothing*, like intel to help intercept drones and missiles targeting civilians - and switched to instead threatening to attack us as well, helping pick us apart piece by piece.

  Do not act surprised when you get seen as duplicitous snakes and we take action to separate ourselves from your levers of pressure.

Yep. And since the nice LLM has written code no human can do anything with anymore, you have to pay for tokens, tokens and more tokens. Or throw the whole steaming pile away. The latter may kill you (a bit earlier) though.