Yes, I am trying to find the perfect balance between security, privacy, usability. I use MS account, store apps, onedrive, edge sync, etc, byt trying to prevent too much leakage, it is not easy playing cat and mouse with MS, but I manage.
If it exists and also works, why not. But as long as it doesn't exist or nothing doesn't work, it's not possible. I still need it to work and not be worse or more inconvenient than previous versions. But I would also like to know who is asking that and what is going to be done with these answers. What is the purpose of this nonsense and whom it is useful?
Back in the day when we were on Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) and I decided to upgrade to Windows XP, my wife thought I was mad wanting to change. She said; "What do you need to upgrade for?"
It isn't fair comparision: 95, 98 & ME were closer to DOS in reliability and multi user security (FAT 16 and FAT 32 had not ACLs!) while 2000 and XP were based on Windows NT kernel: serious bug in one program could not crash whole OS that easily.
MS offered the upgrade to 24H2 through Windows update on my machine about a week ago. I heard some terrible stories about 24H2, but I decided to go ahead with it anyway (I do rely on backups by Macrium Reflect just in case). I've had absolutely no problems whatsoever with 24H2, possibly due to the fact that if one receives it through MS updates, it means there shouldn't be any problems. Also by now all the early glitches are probably gone...
I believe that my eventual move to W.11 is temporary if this project will be materialized without missteps: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/ I would like to wait for the 26.04 LTS and read feedback from users who will try 25.10. I am very interested in the increase in speed performance that the adoption of the Rust language should bring. Plus of course a benefit in security for memory bugs.
Moving from C to Rust shouldn't matter for performance that much, assuming alghorithms will be the same. It is really a matter of security.
During a talk at the FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) event, the lead developer of U-utils demonstrated how the implementation of `sort` in U-utils was 6 times faster than the GNU implementation. Such a significant improvement in a basic operation like sorting can have positive repercussions on countless other programs that rely on it. That is what I hope to verify in Ubuntu.
So they probably changed some algorithm. There were re-implementations of Gnu Coreutils in same language that are faster than original ones. No need to change language for that. It will probably will have impact on scripts I guess? I don't think many binary programs rely on executing other binary program, like sort, to do such basic operation.
MS is been pushing way too much and forcing lunacy way too long now with those SPAMMING UPDATE SCHEDULES that they start bugging my machine. Now i regularly select a backup image as a normal routine. MY MACHINE-MY CHOICE! The absolute dumbest thing a O/S maker could ever do is force fudge up a mass amount of Windows Machines and expect no pushback? This one WORKS!
I still have one old computer running Windows 10, even though I keep getting prompts and reminders from Microsoft to upgrade. I like Windows 10.
