Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
  • Gamers_Mate
    53•6 months ago

    I left windows because of the ai stuff but I didn’t expect it to get this bad. This is literally malware.

    • @Raptor_007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15•6 months ago

      This is finally it for me. I just can’t justify this any longer and will need to dedicate myself to running some flavor of Linux permanently as my daily driver.

    • @criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
      7•6 months ago

      I think I’ll do the same. I wasn’t switching because of compatibility but I realized that there are only 1 or 2 apps that don’t run natively and I don’t use them that often

      Which distro do you recommend? I haven’t used linux in a while, I usually went with ubuntu but I think that’s not the go-to anymore?

      • @Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4•6 months ago

        The distro recommendation is usually mint, but I’d like to know, what does your setup look like? (Monitor specs, PC specs etc)

        • @criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
          2•6 months ago

          It’s a laptop with i3 gen 11, 12GB RAM, and I mainly use it for browsing, torrenting and watching movies (4K, connected to a TV)

            • @criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
              2•6 months ago

              Looks good! I’ll give it a try this weekend, thanks!

              Edit: I just installed it, it looks great! I find it very funny that one of the apps I was worried about was the HP scanner and it worked seamlessly on mint without installing additional drivers or apps so I can stop using that stupid HP app

              Edit2: I also found out that my windows installation (system, drivers, updates, other files that I cannot delete safely) takes about 70Gb out of my 250GB SSD, even after running many commands to try to clean it up

      • Gamers_Mate
        6•6 months ago

        I am no expert though I like Linux Mint it has a windows 7 feel to it which makes it a great distro to start with.

      • @variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
        3•6 months ago

        PopOS is highly recommended, I tried it for a bit and really liked it, I need to plug in a second drive on my main pc to dual boot it there

      • BilliamEnglish
        4•6 months ago

        Lots of people hate on Ubuntu for Snaps, but that’s your own preference. Any of the Ubuntu-based derivatives should work just as well. I would recommend Zorin or Mint, and probably throw PopOS! in for good measure.

      • @GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5•6 months ago

        Just like, pre-installed Edge and Onedrive, completely opt in and one day a windows update (automatically) reboots your pc and you just got opted in.