The higher level of trust I place in free software is one of the motivations for my increasing use of Linux. Even Java comes with crapware on Windows, the app store has the standard creepy more permissions than needed business model.
I remember when download.com was a resource and there was good stuff to be had for free. But bad drove out good a long time ago. The official Windows ecosystem is permalogin appStores and what lives outside the walls is a massive web of bad actors who thrive on Google's self-serving disinterest...Why do download.com and Cnet show up in results? They are less benevolent than content farms.
It's not that I hate Windows or experience viruses. It's that I've tired of being paranoid on the one hand and updated by apps on the other. Psychic weight and distraction are two things of which I want less.
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Clarification: Windows has a great ecosystem for commercial software and in a business context often has the best options for solving domain specific problems.
I remember when download.com was a resource and there was good stuff to be had for free. But bad drove out good a long time ago. The official Windows ecosystem is permalogin appStores and what lives outside the walls is a massive web of bad actors who thrive on Google's self-serving disinterest...Why do download.com and Cnet show up in results? They are less benevolent than content farms.
It's not that I hate Windows or experience viruses. It's that I've tired of being paranoid on the one hand and updated by apps on the other. Psychic weight and distraction are two things of which I want less.
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Clarification: Windows has a great ecosystem for commercial software and in a business context often has the best options for solving domain specific problems.