Does THIS Ease Your Mind About Windows Recall?

[@nostalgianinja]

What stays behind after uninstall? I personally don't feel welcome in an operating system that's actively hostile towards me.

[@richardkenan2891]

I switched to Linux Mint a couple of months ago. There have been some struggles, both with learning to do stuff and with things that just seem not possible under Linux, but mostly I live my Linux life without regrets. I'd happily pay Microsoft a reasonable fee to keep my Windows operating as I like. Given how (or not) I upgrade to new Windows version, I feel like they'd get more money out of me for $30 a year than for pay for each upgrade. But they want control, and are harming my user experience in order to squeeze more money out of me by selling my data and upsell me services I don't want. No. Just no. I took the bitter pill of abandoning everything I knew about using my computer to switch operating systems. Good job Microsoft, now you get nothing from me.

[@edison3571]

Moved to Linux. Dont care what spyware Widoz uses.

[@NotRealNamesAgain]

I haven't used Windows for years, but I AM looking forward to servicing all my customer's machines, and asking Copilot/Recall "what's my favorite category of porn" and learning MUCH more about my customers.

[@metalfiregametime652]

At about 3:30 when you mentioned the van I remembered "matt foley motivational speaker" from SNL. So far I have been loving the Arch based distros :)

[@georgebetrian676]

I like the idea of having an NPU processor that can be used by local language models. It's like, a new toy into computers.

[@rickardstrom9305]

Recall needs to be fully purged, not 'uninstalled' or 'opted in', and prevented from being downloaded with any update. Any organization, be it private or public, can't possible accept anything less. Maybe an Enterprise edition will address this fully.

[@adamtajhassam9188]

im sure the hackers will find new ways to force uninstall through a cmd or other sneaky ways .

[@strayzilla]

Windows for gaming, Linux for everything else. I finally downgraded from Win 11 to Win 10 this morning.

[@Gelonyrum]

Upgraded you meant?

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Agree

[@ringo8410]

Nope, but the funny thing is: the damage is done. Even if Microsoft doesn't renege on its promises to get rid of the more repellent aspects of Recall, a lot of people rightly won't trust a word they say. They've damaged a lot of whatever trust they have left for this stupid gimmick. Real genuises out there in Redmond.

[@CraigRodmellMusic]

No it doesn't. The mere fact that Recall exists AT ALL is the big worry. Though not for me. I made up my mind years ago that I was moving to Windows 10 offline on one machine and Linux on my other two. As I write, I'm trying out Linux distros for the two that I will be converting.

[@kenlen8029]

Using Windows for the first time in 5-6 days after using Mint daily. It feels sh*t honestly. I didn't notice how slow it was and how much noisier this old computer sounds running Windows. I like your point about running Linux off a portable hard drive. I don't think people realize how easy it is to JUST TRY IT. They aren't going to lose anything.

[@TwstedTV]

Some people who have tested the beta version says, its just a false sense of security. When a user installs recall, it just tells windows to hide it from view and process view and continue to work in the background. I am so glad Valve is continuing to improve PROTON for Linux. So I can continue to play games, but on Linux. More and more AAA gaming companies are porting their games to Linux, which is great for everyone. I use Ableton on Windows, but since I moved to Vanilla Debian Linux as my daily driver, I purchased BitWig, since BitWig works on linux and works just like Ableton Live. Also the developers of BitWig are the original developers of Ableton Live anyways. So glad BitWig has a native version for Linux. I am not using windows 11 or any other windows after it. I don't trust windows anymore.

[@BWGPEI]

Switching to Linux for us was firstly a learning experience, and secondly an exercise in personal data security. We have few regrets to making the switch, and much happiness in being able to use Linux Mint to do our daily tasks like reading Email, loading MP3 players and so on. Must admit that the lower cost of SSDs and the multi-boot aspects of Grub have enabled me to continue my computer hobby during my retirement.

[@ronaldkarp4035]

Eased Mind over Recall? I don't understand why it was rolled out the way it was. Between that and Bitlocker, it forced me to look at Mint again. Very slick. Have come a long ways. For the average home user, it's brilliant, light on it's feet and lots of optional Apps that install / uninstall easily without residual registry clog (I think). USB Clonzilla'd the old operating system off to the side, and loaded Linux Mint. The install seen my network printer and set up the scanning software. So many options and so intuitive. Between Libre Office, Thunderbird Mail and The Edge browser - for the average user, it's a done did deal for me.

[@NYCamper62]

Well since I'm not upgrading 10 to 11 then I'd say no. More concerned about Mint 22 & Wayland atm.

[@electricalbatross5797]

I really do hope Cinnamon adds touchpad gestures to their wayland session. It's like the only Wayland DE that doesn't have them at this point >.>

[@NotMarkKnopfler]

Wow. What a mess Windows has become. Glad I'm out.

[@afriquelesud]

Been out since 2006.

[@peterjansen4826]

Do I feel good about some tool making a screenshot of everything that I do? Hell no! 😆I saw a few video's about people moving from Windows to Linux for this very reason. Welcome to the club.

[@encycl07pedia-]

The problem is that when people hear the term "Big Brother," they immediately think it's scary or bad. But I don't. I think, "Wow, I love my big brother." -Michael Scott, *The Office* -encycl07pedia

[@BeckyAnn6879]

I'm concerned, even with uninstalling Recall, it'll be reinstalled with a future update. I remember people making Chrome or Firefox their default browser and then a version update resets Edge to the default browser.

[@OutLanderUSN]

That's what they always do. It's hella frustrating; they don't want us to control the OS.

[@BeckyAnn6879]

@@OutLanderUSN It's pure insanity. Like, I get Windows is... targeted? to those who aren't as tech-savvy, but they don't need to have THIS tight of a grip on the OS.

[@Jc7270-b7c]

Windows Wednesday,but this Thurday, lol.

[@BilalHeuser1]

hmm ... I thought recall was part of the Windows operating system, just like how they made Internet Explorer tightly integrated into Windows.

[@swrekcfest]

Windows recall should be itself recalled 😂

[@LTPottenger]

Autoupdates are not just a threat to computer security but to freedom and gives the ability to turn you off or slow you down at any time, and AI on the PC combined with constant spying means the state can find exactly who disagrees with them.

[@OutLanderUSN]

I'm gonna keep a windows partition for those rare occasions I decide to play something like Battlefield or CoD with my buddies. Outside of that, I'm not doing a damn thing on Windows on my personal computer.

[@D.von.N]

The wicked thing with encrypted USED space on my newly installed Win11 was that when I was looking for a bitlocker key, it had no key anywhere. In settings it offered me to turn on the bitlocker, which everyone would assume means the bitlocker was not turned on. Surprise surprise: I checked the partitions in disk manager, and the partition WAS indeed encrypted. Looking into it via command in cmd, it said: used space encrypted. I asked for the bitlocker key - none found. Aren't they bastards? I had to manually decrypt the whole thing via command, then it showed fully decrypted.

[@louisax4058]

Oh man, I am not looking forward to uograde to W11 next year.

[@terryschima4964]

Oops! Too late; I already installed it. So far so good.

[@electricalbatross5797]

Who's to say the 'uninstall' process isn't just as much of a placebo as an "opt-in" toggle? Why can't it just be installed instead of uninstalled? Microsoft's whiteboard is a far more useful app and you need to install that manually, so why not Recall?

[@HayesTech]

I used Linux (Ubuntu) when I was developing/building custom android for the Galaxy Tab A and loved it. But it was not my choose for every day use and gaming. Windows also worked better with DaVinci resolve. And I use that exclusively for editing my KZbin videos.

[@D.von.N]

Towards the end: I have Linux on a newish laptop and Win11 on a gen2 usb. Copies of each system also exist, if one or the other went rogue, so I am back and running in a couple hours.

[@dansanger5340]

I have no hardware that will support Recall (no NPU), but I am interested in how it turns out. If it does turn out to be super useful and secure, then I might consider enabling it on whatever future Windows machine I might get. But, I won't stop using Linux. I've been a multi-OS guy for a long time, and plan on continuing.

[@Mac-sz9hg]

Hope you bring back Monday top 5 again.

[@TrustJesusToday]

Windoze. Can't live with it. Awesome to live without it.

[@GapRecordingsNamibia]

Sorry, but, to little to late,..... No, I am no more at peace than I was then. I switched 2 months back and these windows BS tactics is only some of why, once I disable and or uninstall something it should REMAIN SO, but, recall was a solid bust for me. They say uninstall? I call BS on that one... I do not for one minute believe that it is un-installed, like "switching off" or muting your mic from a soft switch.... Who else has access to the backend of that "soft switch"? .......

[@BruceOMalley]

Yeah na they'll just silently install in the background without telling us. I moved to Linux couple months back it does everything I want and more without the ads or spying. You'd have to drag me back to windows kicking an screaming before I give up my arch system.

[@afriquelesud]

When I buy a new laptop, it will never even boot into Windows. I start it with my array of USB flash drives, I go to GParted and remove every partition, wiping the SSD clean. I then create my own MBR, a 1GB ext4 boot partition, a 20GB system partition, then a btrfs /home for the remainder of the drive, but I might create a SWAP partition equal to RAM size. That's a waste, really, as I have enough system RAM to disable swap permanently. I use LMDE6 sometimes, but mostly MX Linux KDE. A Ryzen 5, with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM is ample for editing 4K video in Kdenlive. You don't need a GPU for that, but a fast SSD does matter. Linux simplifies life.

[@Germoney2000]

4 the ALGO 👍

[@ganeryhyperion8386]

right on time when i watch your video on my win 11 VM showing that Cumulative Update preview KB5043145, what a odd coincidence. 😂 im ganna click update.... LOL... and see what will happen, and no worry i got a snapshot of the vm before click that update

[@erikferguson71]

It's really all about getting people to buy expensive Copilot PCs. I don't think they care if you uninstall the software so long as you are still running on their treadmill of planned obsolescence. I should really thank Microsoft for setting the used market on fire with amazing deals. I have enough computers to get me through the next decade or more running Linux and Chrome OS Flex.

[@stevensawolkin3873]

Tom. Did you know that "deprecate" and "depreciate" are not the same word, nor are they synonyms? Also, new drinking game: Every time Tom mispronounces "subsequent", take a shot of scotch or gin; and try not to laugh yourself sick. This is "I'm a writer" Tom doing that.

[@netronin504]

Do you have a motherboard with a NPU on it? Then it wont ever get recall. Its hardware dependent. Its requires the NPU chip. Using Windows 11 24h2 on your desktop will never see "RECALL"

[@jedipadawan7023]

Erm... I can run stable diffusion (slowly I grant) on my underpowered AMD laptop. Got a graphics card that can run CUDA or ROCm and it's a cert Microsoft will get Recall to work on your machine. At the moment Microsoft are nudging people to buy new hardware AGAIN and setting a minimum spec for Windows 12 and forcing NPUs on all laptops. But then they will release an update to enable Recall to run on GPU.

[@GapRecordingsNamibia]

Recall is not the AI.... Recall screenshots your desktop and interfaces with copilot which is the AI and between the two your data is distilled down and sent off, recall is not the AI.... The fact that you don't have an npu does not stop recall or copilot from running or installing, the npu becomes the dedicated proccessor for the AI when you have that hardware,. There is no way you dodge recall no matter the hardware you run unless you do not update. Recall has never been npu dependant....

[@Dutch-linux]

no it does not ease my mind.. as with every update they can sneek it back in and you wont even know !!! they have that done over and over and over again with things

[@michaeljavert4635]

I encrypted my drive ONCE and lost everything. The backup was encrypted too. So I thought I would unencrypted everything, back it up and re encrypt it. That takes FOREVER ! Also, sadly, I cannot use Linux for 90 % of stuff I do. I don't know command lines, and when I click on icons, I expect things to work. My software like Alpha Journal Pro, Movie Maker (Yes, I still use that) Express VPN, Malware Bytes, my scanner, printer, and external hard drive and USB Hub all doesn't work on Linux. Then, my files are something else. One time there was an instance where I added files to Linux, but then went back to Windows, and every single one of those new files I created somehow became corrupted before I could ever back them up. This is the darkest path yet, that Microsoft has turned down, since Bill Gates at Epstein's Island, which for some reason, no one talks about. And no, Microsoft is not moving in a positive direction. The ONLY way I will ever be convinced that Microsoft is moving in a positive direction would be when they open their source and they create a Windows shell for Linux and they keep their goddamn nose out of my business.

[@y2ksw1]

I moved away long ago 😊

[@ForesterSOF]

No. I do not trust Microsoft at all. They will find a way to ro use ite-istall it it to your system and force you to use it.

[@TheSecdroid]

You buried the lede! Please talk about the cited issue before late in the video...

[@magicmanj32]

At it again windows basher

[@commietube_censorship_sucks]

Cry harder.

[@CommodoreFan64]

If you like Windows so much, then go find a channel for Windows 🤦‍♂

[@magicmanj32]

@@CommodoreFan64 I use , windows maac and linux idiot

[@Germoney2000]

Windows is begging to be bashed ever since Win7 died...

[@firestarter6488]

*"Leave the poor little billion dollar company alone!"*