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Terrible reasoning.

I have more faith in Microsoft to stop breaking Windows than on the Linux community to fix any of their desktop distros and environments.



Microsoft won't fix intended, by design, behaviour, it is not broken from their point of view. And even if you disable Recall by whatever name they put to hide it, it could be silently reenabled by "security" updates.

At least if some Linux distro includes something that users consider bad for their privacy, you can choose among several alternatives, including direct forks. That is an actual strength of that approach.


It took 10 years[1] for GTK to add the ability to rename files and folders to its file picker.

I think Microsoft will change their minds faster than Linux will fix its other problems.

1. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325150


The difference between Linux and Windows is that if you wanted that functionality almost any time in the past 10 years you could have switched to another file navigator that allowed you to do that, such as dolphin. No such options exist in Windows.




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