They will find a way to force is on everyone. Probably on clould analytics or using the CPU or GPU instead (dragging all of your perf down). Remember when they stated that there wont be any tacking on your PC-- yeah , the good old days.
Recall has been available without an NPU basically since it came out. It didn't even sound like it had much impact on performance, so lacking an NPU is not an obstacle.
In that ancient time one magnificent beast rules all: XPasaurus. But over time he was overtaken by new predators, 7asaurus, 8asaurus and now the most foul beast yet, 11asaurus with amazing 70/20 vision to spy on prey 90 miles away.
I'm tired of fighting Microsoft. I don't want ads, I don't want telemetry sent to Microsoft, I don't want copilot, I don't want the start menu to move around each release, I don't want obscure icons in the context menus, I don't want the ribbon bar, I don't want apps and options behind additional clicks, the list just goes on and on. I don't want Windows for free, I want to pay for it and buy a product, not to be a product. The best way I've found to fix all of this is to find a Linux distribution you like and install it. All those problems are fixed. Now you have new ones, but they aren't some corporation doing their best to catch 'every breath you take'.
@@Olorin-wp9it Linux can do 99% of what Windows can and there's almost always an alternative available if it can't. Also if you got rid of Windows because of RecAll there's no way you're coming back, no amount of disgruntledness is too high to come back and give all your data to Microsoft unless you really never truly cared about it.
@@AJ-po6up "Linux can do 99% of what Windows" what version of Linux? because there are so many, and when you need the inevitable help for your version of Linux you are now getting to the way less than 1% of PC users in that forum. And those forums are full of arrogant Linux users who think you should know all the Linux cmd's off by heart or your not worth helping. Then you have the Linux users that visit Windows forums and RUclips videos trying to convince people to come on over to the dark side, I guess they feel lonely.
@@cam_934 You can use AI to troubleshoot pretty much 100% of Linux issues at this point. If you’re technical enough to be watching this RUclips channel there’s really no reason to not be on Linux at this point. There’s open source alternatives for pretty much every software and support for games is improved ten-fold since steam deck came out.
@@cam_934 Lol the dark side.. quick reminder your using linux right now.. yknow… almost every server runs linux…. The dark side!! it’s every platform that has a server!!! :0000000
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." But, here's the corollary; Reynolds' Razor: "Never excuse as innocent stupidity that which can only be explained by malice." This can _only_ be explained by malicious design.
I'm often torn between if something is driven by malice or created by stupidity. Ultimately this is something that we all have to figure out for ourselves or at least have debates over. That said I want to leave what I think is a crucial life lesson for anyone who is not already familiar it. Look up Carlo M. Cipolla. His work on the ramifications of stupidity is world changing...
@@kmg501 Simple, malice always thrives on ignorance. And Microsoft is absolutely shameless when it comes to relying on the ignorance of the average everyday user. They clearly don't care what experienced power users think if Chris was able to find such unprofessional work with little effort, relative to his skill level of course.
In the end businesses will probably demand a clear removal option as they usually have no interest in sharing everything with unknown parties. They also have their own security, backup and repair options. The average sysadmin would probably be scared to death if every user could simply reset it's computer to an earlier state. They most likely would block it.
1. dedicate your pc to gaming only, no personal stuff, no documents there at all. Use Linux or MacOS for general computing. (update) Some people are so tribal it's painful. I am not telling you what you HAVE TO, or even SHOULD do. I am giving you an option, based on my experience. My approach (for now) is: My old PC is now my "gaming console", no personal details other than logged in to gaming accounts (EA, Battlenet etc...) My new PC is mac mini as that's the best compromise of having a console (zsh) AND working with multimedia apps that I need (AND PAY(PAID) FOR!) Ultimately, do what you want.
as if gaming is the most important thing on peoples minds right now.. no, nobody cares about gaming. its the apps i lose and many loses when switching to linux. macos gets a pass since it has adobe software and actual working davinci resolve. but linux is FAR FAAAR away from getting to %1 of what windows software can do yet. sorry i am not turning my working computer into a glorified console that can barely run sony vegas under wine and all the other bs i hate what microsoft is doing and i stand by windows 7 being the absolute best OS of all human history. but linux need to get their elitist users to f*ck off and do something!, wayland is still shit and does not work under nvidia lmao. WSL2 is good enough for me when programming too.
That's what the AtlasO is trying to point out, Windows is primarily for Gaming, not for professional work, even Adobe Products got some serious issues about data privacy, if your work can be done in Linux, do it there, otherwise use Windows solely for that reason
@@zizu789 "nobody cares" - bold statement from Internet "nobody". Quite frankly - games seems to be THE MOST IMPORTANT element of home PC being still a thing! I know a bunch of people who abandoned 'beige box" decades ago - laptops are new PCs, tablets are new laptops and phones fulfil 90% of people's daily needs for screen time.
Perhaps Microsoft is determined to have Recall run, such that attempts to remove it will break standard tools, like file explorer, and perhaps other tools when Recall gets an update down the road. Breaking things might be intentional by Microsoft, to dissuade people from removing or disabling their latest and greatest spyware tool.
@@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755 Recall is easily removed with a command and doesn't break explorer like hes saying. I already did it. Also you can in fact remove edge as well via command. it wont come back. Did that long ago as well. Simple google search ;) This is all basic shit that im surprised to see on this channell
Imagine every time you change your car you need to figure out where is the brake, lights control, steering wheel because some "brilliant" engineer in Seattle decided to innovate and change everything?
Just thinking that the Model T Ford pedal's functionality were totally different to modern cars and that was probably the biggest selling car during it's production run - yet peeps did adapt.
@@maxrobe Well yes, compared with modern standardized layouts which came about through equal measures of road safety and production streamlining. But for it's time it was the least convoluted system and was relatively affordable in comparison to what else was available due to the streamlined mass production. So not a great analogy there bud. Win 11 is just getting trashier by the minute. I'm not even going to attempt to use it.
@@maxrobe If you bought a model T, then another car 10-15 years later you were probably getting a lot of new worthwhile features in addition to the pedal being moved. Windows 11 moves things around and gives you spyware, bloat, and high system requirements. Like going from XP to Vista
Most of the time,I feel that the programming team at Microsoft is doing their best to make this system much worse every time it updates. This makes me completely confused about how someone would want to become their most important product so badly.
Sadly windows isn't their most important product anymore, nor a product nowadays, but a service. Their big income now is MS365 and Teams, sold to companies and governments all over the world.
@@Infinity_Ghost From that perspective though, it's the same thing' teams & MS365 ALSO seem to get worse & harder to use with every release. One simple example, just this year, within the last quarter or so, they broke the ability to copy-paste teams messages within teams. You used to be able to highlight messages, & it would copy the content ALONG WITH the names & date/times of the posters. Now it just copies the content. Why TF would they remove this feature, that literally everyone used on a day-to-day basis in the work environment? Search me... but it sure wasn't an improvement.
imagine taking microsoft at their word though. you know it will be reintroduced when everything has died down. want a guarantee? don't use microsoft windows anymore ... at this point and time Linux is more than capable.
I am tired of knowing what BS the MS is including in the Windows and Office suite. And later removing the BS after critics globally. Already trying Cinnamon and KDE. Once I finalize, I will be spinning it with Fedora or Debian. Thanks MS for the push.
Nooo!! You can't go Linux! It's all about the terminal! There is no dependency resolution. You have to manually compile programs for course and there is not usable GUI or software. You can't!! Linux is only for programmers! Actually, none of the above is true but there is apparently some law, somewhere, that makes saying the above compulsory whenever Linux is mentioned in a positive light. Carry on.
@@kolotxoz I tried it. Creating a root user is not straightforward and easy. With Mint, Cinnamon, and Wayland I lost all my data when the system crashed. But the current version of Debian is a serious contender.
An OS doesn't need all these so-called features. An OS needs to be efficient, have a small footprint, and leave as many resources possible for my apps. This continuous cat and mouse game with Microsoft is ridiculous.
Retired microsoft engineer Dave plummer the guy who wrote task manager and windows 95 start menu said "Recall is there even in some non copiliot plus pc's but it can be disabled. whats it doing? my guess is nothing but it is a dependency for file explorer it can't be stripped out but it's still there and it's still loaded." I'm not sure but i think that's his way of saying it could be enabled at any time without the users knowledge, or that it wouldn't be loaded unless it was eventually going to be used for something. Now google is introducing their own Recall like feature called project Jarvis and yes it takes snapshots and saves them.
No.... No they won't, they to will be spied on, they will just think they are not being watched, when you have had taste of the power that comes from extortion????? MS won't stop, not even for the rich and powerfull, knowladge is king, and holding dirt over someones head keeps them compliant..... This is only the tip of the sestpool my friend, this is only the tip that we are privy to....
@@maurvir3197 I was trying to be optimistic. As a Beta Tester for Facebook - I saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. Wanna know the future - re privacy. Google is primed & ready to track ( as well as keep a record of all your key strokes) via whatever browser you are using. Using anonymity browsers like Tor or Qubes-OS just makes you stand out like a shark in a swimming pool of goldfish.
Not everyone has the patience nor the know-how to do it, unfortunately. There's also the issue a lot of programs are still designed to work only on Windows, despite the rise of compatibility layers like WINE and Proton.
@@kraosdadafusfus8034 >"Not everyone has the patience nor the know-how to do it, unfortunately." Linux NOT hard to use. It's really easy. Windows has been copying KDE since at least Windows 7... though they are now copying more from MacOS. Your point about software is legit but, honestly, the comman man can pick up Linux use in 20 minutes. I've done it with basketball obsessive teenagers who did not know what a file or folder was.
Yeah, this has to be intentional. Microsoft has known that people have been stripping down their OS for over a decade. They have managed to add so many features without integrating so much of it together for this long, and now that's really starting to change. They knew that Recall was going to be on the chopping block of apps to remove. The fact that you are questioning if this is malice or incompetence is exactly the middle ground Microsoft would want the tinkering community to think, it gives them an open door, and leaves you without answers so you might stick around because "What if?". This was absolutely a market evaluation strategy for a highly questionable addition to the operating system. No matter what, the end-user, loses.
Seems you credit Microsoft with genius thinking and no matter what the user community does Microsoft is always is one step ahead. You think that there's no way to escape "no matter what, the end user loses" if you continue to run Windows. Personally I think you're giving Microsoft too much credit, and the features that they include I either, don't use them, disable them, remove them, replace them or ignore them.
It won't be mandatory as I said last time, the EU won't allow it so will be removed for the EU markets. So will be another Windows N version for the EU.
@@PhilipMarcYThow tf do you avoid an OS that has a disgustingly strong monopoly on PC OS lol there is absolutely nothing that can replace windows. macos and linux are both severely limited compared to windows in compatibility with various apps.
@@MV-ri7zu Mostly because said apps tend to make their software for the OS they see being used most, if people spread out and the usage of all OSes was fairly equal, I would imagine mac and linux would get more apps that are exclusive to windows. It'll take time, but I imagine this will just happen naturally. A lot of people are moving to linux these days. Might not happen in the next year or 2, but 5-10 maybe, who knows.
I wouldn't be so sure of that, the reason why we have the ability to remove edge is because we have a choice of internet browsers. Recall/ Copilot+ is a unique OS feature not replicated anywhere else so I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. And no GDPR does not adequately address AI concerns.
@@MV-ri7zuFor personal use, my own choice. Businesses, I suppose they still have to go with Windows unless they find a way to work with a Linux distro.
Who at Microsoft even thought this was a good idea in the first place? There must have been some in depth meetings about it. "Sure... lets spyware the world." That's a great idea to lose your consumer base.
@@u_long_u64_i64 Right, how can it possibly be accessed by someone else. How can someone possibly access someone else's computer. It's crazy. Never heard of.
It is just some corporate vice president trying to reach a target for a bonus. This is often the case when weird and conflicting things happen at corporate environments, hidden and conflicting incentives.
@@jimw7916 He means that this "feature" will not be allowed on government systems, or any other company with a significant security profile for that matter. So it will always need to have an ability to run without
As many others have pointed out before me, it is obvious why MICROSOFT is doing this. MICROSOFT intends to use recall data to train a MICROSOFT AI personal assistant for each of us, which will 'suggest' how we make decisions and live our lives. MICROSOFT hopes to addict each of us to a MICROSOFT "way".
That's kinda interesting because the public are shifting away from Microsoft to Google. It is a Google world outside of the office. Everyone I know outside my of my small business just uses google and RUclips. They use Google apps, they store on Google drive, if i ask them that they do with their laptop they say "Google." For graphics they use Canva. Most users now do not use offline apps or store data on their Hard drives. They just boot the OS, start up Chrome and use Google apps. Yes, that means zero privacy as well, and most users are fine with that, Most people figure privacy is pointless and shrug but they are NOT being guided by Microsot at all now. They are only interested in Google. We live in a Google world now. Microsoft may be selling Windows on laptops but it's only to start the browser. [That's why Linux is now viable. People are much happier to accept booting Linux once you show them Linux will start a browser, run Google apps and do RUclips. "Sold!" Yes, I type from experience.]
@@jedipadawan7023 you have a good point about Google being dominant over Microsoft. When I sniff my network traffic and check my router data logs, it always shows Google, or something related to Google as being the highest traffic source. Microsoft traffic is very small and very infrequent, mostly checks for updates. I have far less to fear from Microsoft than I would from Google. It's pretty easy to stop Network traffic going to or from Microsoft, but nearly impossible to stop Google, since I do use Android phones.
My company forces me to use Windows because of the Office suite, but apart from that everything else is done on Linux. They forced me to switch to Windows 11 last month and I can say I have even more reason to dislike it. All they did in that version is REMOVE features. The taskbar is now just a toy. It's become unusable for any professional work.
Chris, you sir are a true champion of the people and that of freedom. All you want is for people to enjoy the computing experience no matter which OS the user chooses. Good job fren.
Thats horrible... I will just play some games on my linux gaming pc after working on my linux laptop to forget about this horrible situation. thats horrible.
I'd say, its either 1 - planned (malicious) to essentially to act as a deterrent for the average user from uninstalling/disabling recall, because if it breaks older core functions, they'll be less inclined to attempting the removal. or 2 - they used co-pilot which wrote some mid code and broke more things than the engineers realized.
Much appreciation for bringing this to the surface and educating us on what is happening on Windows, saving all of us many hours of figuring things out on our own. Kudos to you!
Watching this video on my MX Linux machine. And yes, Microsoft deserves all the credit. I would never have discovered Linux if not for (1) Forced Microsoft Accounts (2) Un-removable Edge Browser (3) Ads in the start menu (4) OneDrive with secret file migration (5) BitLocker with secret full disk encryption (6) Forced hardware upgrade (7) And the most offensive of all: Microsoft Recall. MX is excellent. EndeavourOS is fun. It's very relaxing to use a computer that does what I want it do instead of what Micro$oft wants it to do.
As Rossmann said in his wisdom a while ago. If you keep letting a mistake slide or do that mistake just because it benefits you, well you aren't making that mistake by mistake anymore, you are doing it deliberately. And the core word for Recall here is still "Yet"
Not that anyone is going to see this late comment, but it seems that keeping all that telemetry data on every user was getting burdensome and unwieldy for their storage facilities. Hence the scheme for users to store their own telemetry on their own computer, where Microsoft can conveniently access it when needed.
One of Recall's features is being able to do a contextual search through both files and recent actions. That probably takes place in Explorer. Makes sense that they'd list it as a dependency for Explorer.
Unfortunately there is just no alternative to Windows in terms of Gaming, *if you don't want to dual boot.* Because somehow, to this day Game Developers treat Linux Users as if they're Cheaters in games. No Riccochet, No Vanguard, Partially no BattlEye (If Linux isn't Opted in by the Game Developer). I am surprised, nobody... or at least very few people talk about the very disgusting practices pulled off by some game devs in recent weeks. It is Baffling to me how people just Accept for example, an 11 Year old Game (GTA5) working all these Years without a problem on Linux, then suddenly they add an Anti-Cheat and these Developers at Rockstar Practically rip the game out of your Hands that you bought 11 Years ago and the worst part is that the Anti-Cheat worked for a full 2 Days and then it was useless already. So, the Anti-Cheat did pretty much nothing while excluding Linux users. I would really love to run Linux as my OS but since all these Game Devs just treat Linux users like sh*t, its just not possible without having a Dual Boot for Windows Only games.
I use a laptop that doesn’t fit the specs for recall, so this doesn’t affect me at all right now. I don’t care any more. Just the thought of this was the final straw for me. I’ve switched completely to Linux for about 3 weeks now, and I’m very happy that Microsoft finally pushed me to dump them. Thanks for all the good info and work you and your team do. It is very much appreciated.
I run my business on windows/MS365 and Microsoft’s actions around recall has led me to conduct a full parity evaluation of Linux. We deal with PII for clients and MS screenshotting that info is a show stopper.
Our current incentive structures and attractor states are dystopic so thank you for pointing out Recall. I checked my PC last night and I don't have it yet thankfully. Not sure what I'll do I guess use a a separate drive for gaming but that means I can't do everything I want on my PC which is the whole reason I built it in the first place.
As a software engineer who works at a medium sized software company, these things smell like product manager decisions and not developer choices to me.
It may not be happening that *every* computer is spying on you, but the fact that Microsoft is pushing this when literally no one wants it should prompt people to start thinking about alternate OSes. This level of customer contempt should not be able to stand.
I have an ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UM3406HA with procesor AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS and came with 23H2. FeatureName=Recall doesn't exists, I already debloat windows with winutil, I should be safe. You are the only person out there who explains everything, once you won't maintain anymore this project I will switch to linux. Thanks Chris!
I want to thank Microsoft for making Recall. It gave me the final push to switch to Linux. I chose Ubuntu because it seemed the easiest out of the box and out of the box using Nvidia drivers everything just works. Some games even run better even after going through a translation layer in Steam
Photon Engine SDKs: In the context of game development, Photon Engine is a networking engine and multiplayer platform. Microsoft Client Photon refers to the Photon Engine SDKs for Microsoft platforms, such as Android NDK SDK, which enables developers to add multiplayer capabilities to their games. The SDKs allow for real-time communication between connected players across platforms, including iOS, Android, web, console, and standalone applications.
A strange parable: There was a time before the internet where telling the truth shows that you are honest for people and speaking lies means you are dishonest. With advanced technology on the rise, there will eventually be a time where telling the truth shows that you will be dishonest for developers and speaking lies means you will be genuinely honest.
...honestly I don't care if it's active or not. The fact that it's included puts the writing on the wall. Whenever a system goes to 24H2, Im replacing Windows with Bazzite.
Any chance of getting an in-depth guide on what MicroWin does? The documentation of most things of your tool is like a one or two liner that doesnt really explain anything to someone not coding. Which is sad, because I'd like to use MicroWin but not before I know what it removes exactly.
Recall Feature is coming little by little but not fully running yet on most regular computer so most people don't think much about it.. Then it will be more and more integrated via updates on regular computers. And what happens then is that we get more and more complete computers with this Recall Ai integrated into the hardware itself so that this cannot be deactivated like the co pilot computers that are already sold. Then all motherboard manufacturers will eventually follow up by integrating some form of extended Recall/Ai functions in the motherboard that cannot be deactivated. It is easy to see where this is going.
But you can't really implement AI on the motherboard though... People could easily use Linux or some other OS instead of Windows and then what? What will that AI function on the motherboard do? I mean, it's a possibility but I kind of doubt it.
We have already seen things like what you describe, but more on branded devices like android and apple and kindle etc. Hopefully it will be hard to pull off on un branded pcs. But it is another reason to avoid branded hardware. And make sure you know and understand what all the specs are when buying hardware for your pc
With Microsoft heading towards the direction that they are currently, I just went ahead and installed nobaru Linux. Fingers crossed it keeps working smoothly.
Linux was never perfect but now days MS Win11 24H2 is helping pepz move on and choose a Linux Distro as a Primary or secondary option. Not great for newbies but still something to look forward as a primary option for the masses. Well nothing is Perfect or Forever in this Universe.
Thanks for trying to save the people, who still have to use Windows for one or another reason (thankfully, I'm not in such situation). I hope the IT community in large will be able to hold the line, so to speak - for all the normies in the world.
The fact that they even thought to create this "feature" destroyed any remaining crumbs of trust I had in MS. I only had Windows running a gaming machine, anyway but that's now running Linux Mint.
I’m confused about the direction of dependence. You seem to be suggesting removing some file/package x breaks apps on which x depends, but that is backwards (right?) Am I missing something? Was this just uncareful wording?
Louis Rossmann has found that some laptops are wired in a way that if opened without first knowing there is a tiny weak needed wire, the person opening it will brick the device. This kind of malicunis has become common, the needless removal of repairablity. Like you use to be able to simply open house fans to clean nd oil them with common tools, now you need not just specialty bits, but also tools that home users will never use except for that single task.
Tom Warren over at the Verge is furiously watching this and trying to figure out how to paint you as either a liar or someone over-exaggerating the issue for his masters over at Microsoft.
Mary Jo Foley: Go Tom! Do it to Titus! Ed Bott: absolutely Mary. It's the users fault. Users must understand and adjust to Recall. Paul Thurrott: I'm gonna phone Tom. Together we can sink this Titus upstart.
I mean... one of them did the research and wrote an article to debunk the 3 clickbait videos made by the other in which they continue to imply something that isn't true.
I think they’re linking to other parts of the system for two reasons. 1) To stop users taking back control of their spyware. 2) laziness. Now the problem with overly linked code is that one can get into a pickle when trying to change things so Microsoft is making a rod for their own back. The code is becoming less maintainable.
The future of Windows marches ever onward. No idea why this fiasco exists. Recall should be an add-on, never should've been baked into the OS like this. Reminds me of Internet Explorer and Cortana breaking Search.
This is why I have installed Linux. Not only I get a system that is vastly superior in security, but I also don't have BS like this. I could have it, if I wanted to, but I am not forced to have it.
Here was the fix where appmanifest is fixed in file explorer: github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/pull/2947
Did you see that Google has come up with their own recall like feature they are gonna put in chrome called "Project Jarvis"
Hi Chris, may I ask how to install this fix? 😊
Please stop using God's holy name disrespectfully in your content.
I left Windows for good last week....
@@PunkDogCreations It is his content. You can not watch it if it bothers you.
When not having an NPU in your PC becomes a selling point.
How did you do that search link on 🔎“NPU”
"Microsoft Windows 11 would like access to your GPU..." :D
They will find a way to force is on everyone. Probably on clould analytics or using the CPU or GPU instead (dragging all of your perf down). Remember when they stated that there wont be any tacking on your PC-- yeah , the good old days.
@@mowtow90 Microsoft is doing such a good job pushing linux as a viable alternative.
Recall has been available without an NPU basically since it came out. It didn't even sound like it had much impact on performance, so lacking an NPU is not an obstacle.
There was a time, long ago, when mankind looked eagerly forward to new groundbreaking Windows features, free of dread and consternation.
In that ancient time one magnificent beast rules all: XPasaurus. But over time he was overtaken by new predators, 7asaurus, 8asaurus and now the most foul beast yet, 11asaurus with amazing 70/20 vision to spy on prey 90 miles away.
yes people even dished out hundreds of dollars, now it is impending dread of AI
Those were good times...
Ah you mean like.... never? The was ALWAYS consternation about Microsoft products even in the 80s
Windows has finally developed a feature to rival the innovation of Mr. Clippy, yet some don't appreciate the accomplishment.
I'm tired of fighting Microsoft. I don't want ads, I don't want telemetry sent to Microsoft, I don't want copilot, I don't want the start menu to move around each release, I don't want obscure icons in the context menus, I don't want the ribbon bar, I don't want apps and options behind additional clicks, the list just goes on and on. I don't want Windows for free, I want to pay for it and buy a product, not to be a product. The best way I've found to fix all of this is to find a Linux distribution you like and install it. All those problems are fixed. Now you have new ones, but they aren't some corporation doing their best to catch 'every breath you take'.
"Removing Recall gives you the old Windows File Explorer" that's a win win situation 😂
"That's a feature, not a bug"
Why?
Explorer will lose dark mode, so it's not exactly a win win.
Tabs in the file explorer are the best feature that Microsoft added to the file explorer since Windows 2000.
@@TheNerd that's only a recent thing? Dolphin has had it for years
Malicious or incompetent? Why not both.
👍👍!!!
`Nothing makes Linux so popular as Windows Recall does`
For a week maybe. Until the disgruntled Windows user realizes that Linux sucks and reinstalls Windows again.
@@Olorin-wp9it Linux can do 99% of what Windows can and there's almost always an alternative available if it can't. Also if you got rid of Windows because of RecAll there's no way you're coming back, no amount of disgruntledness is too high to come back and give all your data to Microsoft unless you really never truly cared about it.
@@AJ-po6up "Linux can do 99% of what Windows" what version of Linux? because there are so many, and when you need the inevitable help for your version of Linux you are now getting to the way less than 1% of PC users in that forum. And those forums are full of arrogant Linux users who think you should know all the Linux cmd's off by heart or your not worth helping. Then you have the Linux users that visit Windows forums and RUclips videos trying to convince people to come on over to the dark side, I guess they feel lonely.
@@cam_934 You can use AI to troubleshoot pretty much 100% of Linux issues at this point.
If you’re technical enough to be watching this RUclips channel there’s really no reason to not be on Linux at this point.
There’s open source alternatives for pretty much every software and support for games is improved ten-fold since steam deck came out.
@@cam_934 Lol the dark side.. quick reminder your using linux right now.. yknow… almost every server runs linux…. The dark side!! it’s every platform that has a server!!! :0000000
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
But, here's the corollary; Reynolds' Razor: "Never excuse as innocent stupidity that which can only be explained by malice."
This can _only_ be explained by malicious design.
You left out "Greed". As has been said, YOU are the product. Your data is sold and resold for profit. Your privacy is irrelevant.
I'm often torn between if something is driven by malice or created by stupidity. Ultimately this is something that we all have to figure out for ourselves or at least have debates over. That said I want to leave what I think is a crucial life lesson for anyone who is not already familiar it. Look up Carlo M. Cipolla. His work on the ramifications of stupidity is world changing...
Intentional stupidity….
“intentional negligence”
Criminal negligence
Criminal stupidity?
@@kmg501 Simple, malice always thrives on ignorance. And Microsoft is absolutely shameless when it comes to relying on the ignorance of the average everyday user. They clearly don't care what experienced power users think if Chris was able to find such unprofessional work with little effort, relative to his skill level of course.
@@MrMeltdown Criminal Negligence is basically stupidity/ willful ignorance
In the end businesses will probably demand a clear removal option as they usually have no interest in sharing everything with unknown parties. They also have their own security, backup and repair options. The average sysadmin would probably be scared to death if every user could simply reset it's computer to an earlier state. They most likely would block it.
1. dedicate your pc to gaming only, no personal stuff, no documents there at all. Use Linux or MacOS for general computing.
(update)
Some people are so tribal it's painful.
I am not telling you what you HAVE TO, or even SHOULD do.
I am giving you an option, based on my experience.
My approach (for now) is:
My old PC is now my "gaming console", no personal details other than logged in to gaming accounts (EA, Battlenet etc...)
My new PC is mac mini as that's the best compromise of having a console (zsh) AND working with multimedia apps that I need (AND PAY(PAID) FOR!)
Ultimately, do what you want.
Even better, do NOT store personal stuff on your local storage drive. Save them on an external drive or your NAS.
as if gaming is the most important thing on peoples minds right now.. no, nobody cares about gaming. its the apps i lose and many loses when switching to linux. macos gets a pass since it has adobe software and actual working davinci resolve. but linux is FAR FAAAR away from getting to %1 of what windows software can do yet.
sorry i am not turning my working computer into a glorified console that can barely run sony vegas under wine and all the other bs
i hate what microsoft is doing and i stand by windows 7 being the absolute best OS of all human history. but linux need to get their elitist users to f*ck off and do something!, wayland is still shit and does not work under nvidia lmao. WSL2 is good enough for me when programming too.
That's what the AtlasO is trying to point out, Windows is primarily for Gaming, not for professional work, even Adobe Products got some serious issues about data privacy, if your work can be done in Linux, do it there, otherwise use Windows solely for that reason
@@zizu789ever heard of dual booting?
@@zizu789 "nobody cares" - bold statement from Internet "nobody". Quite frankly - games seems to be THE MOST IMPORTANT element of home PC being still a thing! I know a bunch of people who abandoned 'beige box" decades ago - laptops are new PCs, tablets are new laptops and phones fulfil 90% of people's daily needs for screen time.
Perhaps Microsoft is determined to have Recall run, such that attempts to remove it will break standard tools, like file explorer, and perhaps other tools when Recall gets an update down the road.
Breaking things might be intentional by Microsoft, to dissuade people from removing or disabling their latest and greatest spyware tool.
Was it the government that asked Microsoft to spy on everyone, or was it Microsoft who offered that service to all governments.
I at least see a demand in alternative shells. Will they port kde to windows again?
we've already seen it with edge. every time you would disable or uninstall it with command prompt- it just got reinstalled the next update.
@@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755 Set your region to somewhere in EU, Like Ireland, and you won't have that problem.
@@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755 Recall is easily removed with a command and doesn't break explorer like hes saying. I already did it. Also you can in fact remove edge as well via command. it wont come back. Did that long ago as well. Simple google search ;) This is all basic shit that im surprised to see on this channell
Imagine every time you change your car you need to figure out where is the brake, lights control, steering wheel because some "brilliant" engineer in Seattle decided to innovate and change everything?
But enough about Elon Musk and the Cybertruck
Just thinking that the Model T Ford pedal's functionality were totally different to modern cars and that was probably the biggest selling car during it's production run - yet peeps did adapt.
@@maxrobe Well yes, compared with modern standardized layouts which came about through equal measures of road safety and production streamlining. But for it's time it was the least convoluted system and was relatively affordable in comparison to what else was available due to the streamlined mass production. So not a great analogy there bud. Win 11 is just getting trashier by the minute. I'm not even going to attempt to use it.
@@maxrobe If you bought a model T, then another car 10-15 years later you were probably getting a lot of new worthwhile features in addition to the pedal being moved. Windows 11 moves things around and gives you spyware, bloat, and high system requirements. Like going from XP to Vista
Most of the time,I feel that the programming team at Microsoft is doing their best to make this system much worse every time it updates.
This makes me completely confused about how someone would want to become their most important product so badly.
Probably under/un-paid engineers and interns...
Sadly windows isn't their most important product anymore, nor a product nowadays, but a service. Their big income now is MS365 and Teams, sold to companies and governments all over the world.
Engineers don’t always call the shots.
This
@@Infinity_Ghost From that perspective though, it's the same thing' teams & MS365 ALSO seem to get worse & harder to use with every release.
One simple example, just this year, within the last quarter or so, they broke the ability to copy-paste teams messages within teams. You used to be able to highlight messages, & it would copy the content ALONG WITH the names & date/times of the posters. Now it just copies the content. Why TF would they remove this feature, that literally everyone used on a day-to-day basis in the work environment? Search me... but it sure wasn't an improvement.
imagine taking microsoft at their word though. you know it will be reintroduced when everything has died down. want a guarantee? don't use microsoft windows anymore ... at this point and time Linux is more than capable.
I am tired of knowing what BS the MS is including in the Windows and Office suite. And later removing the BS after critics globally.
Already trying Cinnamon and KDE. Once I finalize, I will be spinning it with Fedora or Debian. Thanks MS for the push.
Don't use fedora though, all the redhat nonsense is crap use a debian based system or just linux mint cinnamon.
@@BurkenProductions
Sure. I will consider your suggestion. 👍🏻
I am already biased towards Debian.
Nooo!! You can't go Linux!
It's all about the terminal! There is no dependency resolution. You have to manually compile programs for course and there is not usable GUI or software.
You can't!! Linux is only for programmers!
Actually, none of the above is true but there is apparently some law, somewhere, that makes saying the above compulsory whenever Linux is mentioned in a positive light.
Carry on.
@@VirendraBG you cant go wrong with linux mint cinnamon
@@kolotxoz
I tried it.
Creating a root user is not straightforward and easy.
With Mint, Cinnamon, and Wayland I lost all my data when the system crashed.
But the current version of Debian is a serious contender.
I wanna profusely thank Microsoft for this feature. It gave me the final push to switch to Linux.
Lmao same. And no matter what they do, I ain't going back. Linux just feels so damn comfy once it's set up the way you want it to.
I was on a call with a friend and i mentioned recall, he said "can you help me install linux next week?"
@achaziel what distro should i use for gaming?
@@QuartQ3 Ubuntu or Mint, heck you can even just go all in with SteamOS
@@TehM4dcow Nobara or Bazzite to be more specific
An OS doesn't need all these so-called features. An OS needs to be efficient, have a small footprint, and leave as many resources possible for my apps. This continuous cat and mouse game with Microsoft is ridiculous.
It will stop when Microsoft don't think they're the most likely alternative. Same as Adobe. It's pure exploitation.
Retired microsoft engineer Dave plummer the guy who wrote task manager and windows 95 start menu said "Recall is there even in some non copiliot plus pc's but it can be disabled. whats it doing? my guess is nothing but it is a dependency for file explorer it can't be stripped out but it's still there and it's still loaded." I'm not sure but i think that's his way of saying it could be enabled at any time without the users knowledge, or that it wouldn't be loaded unless it was eventually going to be used for something. Now google is introducing their own Recall like feature called project Jarvis and yes it takes snapshots and saves them.
This fix shows me even more that MS deliberately tied the two. That was not a 'mistake'. At least you can easily fix it, for now.
*The time is coming* ------------ when only the rich & powerful ---------------*will be able to afford privacy*
No.... No they won't, they to will be spied on, they will just think they are not being watched, when you have had taste of the power that comes from extortion?????
MS won't stop, not even for the rich and powerfull, knowladge is king, and holding dirt over someones head keeps them compliant.....
This is only the tip of the sestpool my friend, this is only the tip that we are privy to....
I hate to break it to you, bud, but we've been there for decades already. It's just more apparent now.
@@maurvir3197 I was trying to be optimistic. As a Beta Tester for Facebook - I saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. Wanna know the future - re privacy. Google is primed & ready to track ( as well as keep a record of all your key strokes) via whatever browser you are using. Using anonymity browsers like Tor or Qubes-OS just makes you stand out like a shark in a swimming pool of goldfish.
With the benefit of hindsight, my decision to move to GNU/Linux in 2018 was the correct one.
Not everyone has the patience nor the know-how to do it, unfortunately. There's also the issue a lot of programs are still designed to work only on Windows, despite the rise of compatibility layers like WINE and Proton.
@@kraosdadafusfus8034 >"Not everyone has the patience nor the know-how to do it, unfortunately." Linux NOT hard to use. It's really easy.
Windows has been copying KDE since at least Windows 7... though they are now copying more from MacOS.
Your point about software is legit but, honestly, the comman man can pick up Linux use in 20 minutes. I've done it with basketball obsessive teenagers who did not know what a file or folder was.
@@kraosdadafusfus8034 for me the biggest problem is collaborating with Microsoft word users, the formatting of documents goes to Snafu both ways.
Yeah, this has to be intentional. Microsoft has known that people have been stripping down their OS for over a decade. They have managed to add so many features without integrating so much of it together for this long, and now that's really starting to change. They knew that Recall was going to be on the chopping block of apps to remove. The fact that you are questioning if this is malice or incompetence is exactly the middle ground Microsoft would want the tinkering community to think, it gives them an open door, and leaves you without answers so you might stick around because "What if?". This was absolutely a market evaluation strategy for a highly questionable addition to the operating system. No matter what, the end-user, loses.
Seems you credit Microsoft with genius thinking and no matter what the user community does Microsoft is always is one step ahead. You think that there's no way to escape "no matter what, the end user loses" if you continue to run Windows.
Personally I think you're giving Microsoft too much credit, and the features that they include I either, don't use them, disable them, remove them, replace them or ignore them.
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Well said.
Thiefware
Whether its malice or incompetence, its.. just... Bad
It won't be mandatory as I said last time, the EU won't allow it so will be removed for the EU markets. So will be another Windows N version for the EU.
There's still plenty of garbage "features" M$ will include in Windows 11/12 that makes it an OS to be avoided.
@@PhilipMarcYThow tf do you avoid an OS that has a disgustingly strong monopoly on PC OS lol there is absolutely nothing that can replace windows. macos and linux are both severely limited compared to windows in compatibility with various apps.
@@MV-ri7zu Mostly because said apps tend to make their software for the OS they see being used most, if people spread out and the usage of all OSes was fairly equal, I would imagine mac and linux would get more apps that are exclusive to windows. It'll take time, but I imagine this will just happen naturally. A lot of people are moving to linux these days. Might not happen in the next year or 2, but 5-10 maybe, who knows.
I wouldn't be so sure of that, the reason why we have the ability to remove edge is because we have a choice of internet browsers. Recall/ Copilot+ is a unique OS feature not replicated anywhere else so I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. And no GDPR does not adequately address AI concerns.
@@MV-ri7zuFor personal use, my own choice.
Businesses, I suppose they still have to go with Windows unless they find a way to work with a Linux distro.
Thankyou and the rest of the folks for figuring this one out!
This was done by Microsoft on purpose. This company has been around forever. When adding new "features" the are doing it on purpose.
Exfiltration Enshittification...M$ & Intel in Is(n't)real. Cogitate upon that. 🤔
Who at Microsoft even thought this was a good idea in the first place? There must have been some in depth meetings about it. "Sure... lets spyware the world." That's a great idea to lose your consumer base.
Ed Bott: you have to adjust to Recall.
Mary Jo Foley: anyone who hates recall - it's the user's fault Ed.
Ed Bott: absolutely Mary.
Well, Recall is storing on your local PC, how can it even possibly be accessed by anyone else? 256GB is a lot of space to be transferred to MS Servers
@@u_long_u64_i64 Right, how can it possibly be accessed by someone else. How can someone possibly access someone else's computer. It's crazy. Never heard of.
Probably an investor
It is just some corporate vice president trying to reach a target for a bonus. This is often the case when weird and conflicting things happen at corporate environments, hidden and conflicting incentives.
We should thank God for people like you Chris (and others) for doing this work. Where would we be without you? Keep up the good work.
If it's MicroSoft, it's malicious.
I think you have found their new company slogan.
There's no way Recall will fly with government agencies. Microsoft has to implement a way to disable/uninstall it.
It certainly violates HIPAA regulations.
LTSC does not have it or copilot.
hahahahahahaa what gives you the idea that gov agencies are here to help you?
@@jimw7916 He means that this "feature" will not be allowed on government systems, or any other company with a significant security profile for that matter. So it will always need to have an ability to run without
@@rubenk548 I KNOW what the EASIEST way to disable it. ............... run Linux!
As many others have pointed out before me, it is obvious why MICROSOFT is doing this. MICROSOFT intends to use recall data to train a MICROSOFT AI personal assistant for each of us, which will 'suggest' how we make decisions and live our lives. MICROSOFT hopes to addict each of us to a MICROSOFT "way".
How is screenshotting going to tell an AI how to run my life? AIs need to tell me stuff I don't know, not things I do know.
@@SpaceCadet4Jesus You are not immune to propaganda. Good luck, homie.
That's kinda interesting because the public are shifting away from Microsoft to Google.
It is a Google world outside of the office. Everyone I know outside my of my small business just uses google and RUclips. They use Google apps, they store on Google drive, if i ask them that they do with their laptop they say "Google."
For graphics they use Canva. Most users now do not use offline apps or store data on their Hard drives. They just boot the OS, start up Chrome and use Google apps.
Yes, that means zero privacy as well, and most users are fine with that, Most people figure privacy is pointless and shrug but they are NOT being guided by Microsot at all now. They are only interested in Google.
We live in a Google world now. Microsoft may be selling Windows on laptops but it's only to start the browser. [That's why Linux is now viable. People are much happier to accept booting Linux once you show them Linux will start a browser, run Google apps and do RUclips. "Sold!" Yes, I type from experience.]
@@jedipadawan7023 you have a good point about Google being dominant over Microsoft. When I sniff my network traffic and check my router data logs, it always shows Google, or something related to Google as being the highest traffic source. Microsoft traffic is very small and very infrequent, mostly checks for updates.
I have far less to fear from Microsoft than I would from Google. It's pretty easy to stop Network traffic going to or from Microsoft, but nearly impossible to stop Google, since I do use Android phones.
Thank you for all your work!!!!
My company forces me to use Windows because of the Office suite, but apart from that everything else is done on Linux. They forced me to switch to Windows 11 last month and I can say I have even more reason to dislike it. All they did in that version is REMOVE features. The taskbar is now just a toy. It's become unusable for any professional work.
run a windows vm in linux office does not need gpu acceleration
When was the taskbar ever a tool for professional work? It just holds my most used apps and shows open programs and folders, same as before.
Retrobar solves this issue
@@d9zirable "solves" it in the sense that 3rd party patches are needed - meaning the underlying issue is still there.
I run Classic Shell and it's W11 version Open Shell. I chose w7 desktop.
Fedora 41 with KDE 6.2.2 seems like a very solid decision right now.
Chris, you sir are a true champion of the people and that of freedom. All you want is for people to enjoy the computing experience no matter which OS the user chooses. Good job fren.
Thats horrible... I will just play some games on my linux gaming pc after working on my linux laptop to forget about this horrible situation. thats horrible.
Can your linux gaming pc run wallpaper engine
@@d9zirable Steam version on ubuntu does.. using a quick search.. theres a guide…
@@d9zirable Can your windows PC run Crysis? Ha! Checkmate!
@@d9zirableshort answer, yes
Long anwser, yes but u have to use alternative app (not wallpaper engine) that can do the same thing
@@bearde_mut9731 um, yeah i think? I found a copy on 1337x i think it might work
I'd say, its either 1 - planned (malicious) to essentially to act as a deterrent for the average user from uninstalling/disabling recall, because if it breaks older core functions, they'll be less inclined to attempting the removal. or 2 - they used co-pilot which wrote some mid code and broke more things than the engineers realized.
Much appreciation for bringing this to the surface and educating us on what is happening on Windows, saving all of us many hours of figuring things out on our own. Kudos to you!
Watching this video on my MX Linux machine. And yes, Microsoft deserves all the credit. I would never have discovered Linux if not for (1) Forced Microsoft Accounts (2) Un-removable Edge Browser (3) Ads in the start menu (4) OneDrive with secret file migration (5) BitLocker with secret full disk encryption (6) Forced hardware upgrade (7) And the most offensive of all: Microsoft Recall. MX is excellent. EndeavourOS is fun. It's very relaxing to use a computer that does what I want it do instead of what Micro$oft wants it to do.
"Is it malicious or is it incompetance?" It's interesting how these are the only options with Microsoft.
its both at the same time
Malicious Incompetence.
thanks for figuring this out for me and making a fix public. your awesome chris
As Rossmann said in his wisdom a while ago.
If you keep letting a mistake slide or do that mistake just because it benefits you, well you aren't making that mistake by mistake anymore, you are doing it deliberately.
And the core word for Recall here is still "Yet"
Besides the security concern, how about the additional degradation of an SSD with unwanted write cycles?
Thank you so much for keeping us in the loop!
Not that anyone is going to see this late comment, but it seems that keeping all that telemetry data on every user was getting burdensome and unwieldy for their storage facilities. Hence the scheme for users to store their own telemetry on their own computer, where Microsoft can conveniently access it when needed.
Just imagine if that was true... lmao!
@@ItzMeKarizma It's been true for a while now. Enjoy.
Let's not get too technical. Point is they slipped it in and no one asked for it and thought no one would notice
What gives you the idea that they thought no one would notice??
One of Recall's features is being able to do a contextual search through both files and recent actions. That probably takes place in Explorer. Makes sense that they'd list it as a dependency for Explorer.
Switched my primary OS to Linux a couple weeks ago. I’m not going down this road with Microsoft any further.
Thanks to you and your collaborators for doing this work. It is interesting to me how all this has revealed how little Microsoft is trusted now.
If it wasn't for all this crap, 24h2 is so much faster than the older versions.
If you debloat it feels even faster
The Harder Microsoft tries to force Recall on me. the clearer it gets they have sinister plans
Unfortunately there is just no alternative to Windows in terms of Gaming, *if you don't want to dual boot.*
Because somehow, to this day Game Developers treat Linux Users as if they're Cheaters in games.
No Riccochet, No Vanguard, Partially no BattlEye (If Linux isn't Opted in by the Game Developer).
I am surprised, nobody... or at least very few people talk about the very disgusting practices pulled off by some game devs in recent weeks.
It is Baffling to me how people just Accept for example, an 11 Year old Game (GTA5) working all these Years without a problem on Linux, then suddenly they add an Anti-Cheat and these Developers at Rockstar Practically rip the game out of your Hands that you bought 11 Years ago and the worst part is that the Anti-Cheat worked for a full 2 Days and then it was useless already.
So, the Anti-Cheat did pretty much nothing while excluding Linux users.
I would really love to run Linux as my OS but since all these Game Devs just treat Linux users like sh*t, its just not possible without having a Dual Boot for Windows Only games.
This channel gets better and better!
Thank you very much for your attention Recall
On the first flight, Micrsoft was the pilot monitoring...Now...Chris Titus is in the right seat as the pilot monitoring 😎
Damn you all for being so smart and competent , thus delaying the exodus
I use a laptop that doesn’t fit the specs for recall, so this doesn’t affect me at all right now. I don’t care any more. Just the thought of this was the final straw for me. I’ve switched completely to Linux for about 3 weeks now, and I’m very happy that Microsoft finally pushed me to dump them. Thanks for all the good info and work you and your team do. It is very much appreciated.
Good to see you correcting your other videos 🙏
Like Edge, there's a reason they're not charging extra for Recall, but making it hard to remove
I run my business on windows/MS365 and Microsoft’s actions around recall has led me to conduct a full parity evaluation of Linux. We deal with PII for clients and MS screenshotting that info is a show stopper.
Our current incentive structures and attractor states are dystopic so thank you for pointing out Recall. I checked my PC last night and I don't have it yet thankfully. Not sure what I'll do I guess use a a separate drive for gaming but that means I can't do everything I want on my PC which is the whole reason I built it in the first place.
As a software engineer who works at a medium sized software company, these things smell like product manager decisions and not developer choices to me.
It may not be happening that *every* computer is spying on you, but the fact that Microsoft is pushing this when literally no one wants it should prompt people to start thinking about alternate OSes. This level of customer contempt should not be able to stand.
Personally I'd like to find out what it does and how I can use it to my advantage. Just like I do other software.
Will there be an option in winutil to remove recall from an installed windows?
I have an ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UM3406HA with procesor AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS and came with 23H2. FeatureName=Recall doesn't exists, I already debloat windows with winutil, I should be safe. You are the only person out there who explains everything, once you won't maintain anymore this project I will switch to linux. Thanks Chris!
Oh no? Doing horrible things is bad for PR? When will M$ learn. It's incompetent maliciousness.
Not yet, but will be in latter releases. Holding on 23H2.
I want to thank Microsoft for making Recall. It gave me the final push to switch to Linux. I chose Ubuntu because it seemed the easiest out of the box and out of the box using Nvidia drivers everything just works. Some games even run better even after going through a translation layer in Steam
This dude be putting out more useful Tech Tips contents than LTT
Photon Engine SDKs: In the context of game development, Photon Engine is a networking engine and multiplayer platform. Microsoft Client Photon refers to the Photon Engine SDKs for Microsoft platforms, such as Android NDK SDK, which enables developers to add multiplayer capabilities to their games. The SDKs allow for real-time communication between connected players across platforms, including iOS, Android, web, console, and standalone applications.
A strange parable: There was a time before the internet where telling the truth shows that you are honest for people and speaking lies means you are dishonest. With advanced technology on the rise, there will eventually be a time where telling the truth shows that you will be dishonest for developers and speaking lies means you will be genuinely honest.
...honestly I don't care if it's active or not. The fact that it's included puts the writing on the wall. Whenever a system goes to 24H2, Im replacing Windows with Bazzite.
6:13 It is like: why would you remove them :3 we coded it so users use it 🎉🎉
Any chance of getting an in-depth guide on what MicroWin does? The documentation of most things of your tool is like a one or two liner that doesnt really explain anything to someone not coding. Which is sad, because I'd like to use MicroWin but not before I know what it removes exactly.
I've always got help / nice stuff from ur videos
Recall Feature is coming little by little but not fully running yet on most regular computer so most people don't think much about it.. Then it will be more and more integrated via updates on regular computers. And what happens then is that we get more and more complete computers with this Recall Ai integrated into the hardware itself so that this cannot be deactivated like the co pilot computers that are already sold. Then all motherboard manufacturers will eventually follow up by integrating some form of extended Recall/Ai functions in the motherboard that cannot be deactivated. It is easy to see where this is going.
But you can't really implement AI on the motherboard though... People could easily use Linux or some other OS instead of Windows and then what? What will that AI function on the motherboard do? I mean, it's a possibility but I kind of doubt it.
We have already seen things like what you describe, but more on branded devices like android and apple and kindle etc. Hopefully it will be hard to pull off on un branded pcs. But it is another reason to avoid branded hardware. And make sure you know and understand what all the specs are when buying hardware for your pc
With Microsoft heading towards the direction that they are currently, I just went ahead and installed nobaru Linux. Fingers crossed it keeps working smoothly.
4:07 "... definitively not the case! Yet!"
Got tired of all the windows drama and switched to linux a couple of month ago.
you're great, I'm glad u r in the pc community
Linux was never perfect but now days MS Win11 24H2 is helping pepz move on and choose a Linux Distro as a Primary or secondary option. Not great for newbies but still something to look forward as a primary option for the masses. Well nothing is Perfect or Forever in this Universe.
Thanks for trying to save the people, who still have to use Windows for one or another reason (thankfully, I'm not in such situation).
I hope the IT community in large will be able to hold the line, so to speak - for all the normies in the world.
This is like Microsoft taking away the start button again...
The fact that they even thought to create this "feature" destroyed any remaining crumbs of trust I had in MS. I only had Windows running a gaming machine, anyway but that's now running Linux Mint.
I’m confused about the direction of dependence. You seem to be suggesting removing some file/package x breaks apps on which x depends, but that is backwards (right?) Am I missing something? Was this just uncareful wording?
How many sudden?
Chris: _"All the sudden"_
my laptop has nvidia gpu, so i'm scared to install linux. dual booting is not like good old days
believe me that nvidia on linux now is very much usable, even on wayland.
Another reason to buy Chris's excellent software which strips all the crap and makes an ISO.
It's one of those optional-mandatory type features...
Photon afaik is tied to experience packs like Settings Home, Accounts etc.
Thanks for all the work and the great video!
Louis Rossmann has found that some laptops are wired in a way that if opened without first knowing there is a tiny weak needed wire, the person opening it will brick the device. This kind of malicunis has become common, the needless removal of repairablity. Like you use to be able to simply open house fans to clean nd oil them with common tools, now you need not just specialty bits, but also tools that home users will never use except for that single task.
@jandraeleune1 Was this a certain manufacturer or all of them do that? with the tiny wire?
Tom Warren over at the Verge is furiously watching this and trying to figure out how to paint you as either a liar or someone over-exaggerating the issue for his masters over at Microsoft.
Mary Jo Foley: Go Tom! Do it to Titus!
Ed Bott: absolutely Mary. It's the users fault. Users must understand and adjust to Recall.
Paul Thurrott: I'm gonna phone Tom. Together we can sink this Titus upstart.
@@musicalneptunianAren't all of them, Boomers?
I mean... one of them did the research and wrote an article to debunk the 3 clickbait videos made by the other in which they continue to imply something that isn't true.
The verge? Ahh I remember them from the infamous PC Build.
Thank You for all the hard work! Allthough I am a Linux user, it is good to see that somebody is concerned about what Microsoft do!
I think they’re linking to other parts of the system for two reasons.
1) To stop users taking back control of their spyware.
2) laziness.
Now the problem with overly linked code is that one can get into a pickle when trying to change things so Microsoft is making a rod for their own back. The code is becoming less maintainable.
They sure have been making unintentional "advertisement" for Linux lately.
The future of Windows marches ever onward. No idea why this fiasco exists. Recall should be an add-on, never should've been baked into the OS like this. Reminds me of Internet Explorer and Cortana breaking Search.
This is why I have installed Linux. Not only I get a system that is vastly superior in security, but I also don't have BS like this. I could have it, if I wanted to, but I am not forced to have it.
In 2025, Windows becomes my 'only when I have to' operating system. Wish me luck.
Can we have a new updated video on how to use MicroWin please
Did you see that Verge article that tried to call you out? Tom Warren had a hissy fit 😂
the same company that doesn't know how to build a computer? hilarious