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posted by n1 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.

Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.

Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:50PM (#252988)

    Haven't heard about ReactOS in years, if I were asked I would have said it was dead (and it's only in Alpha). Obviously if it were a viable alternative to Windows it would be a healthy distribution at this point in history. Linux is still going stronger than ever, and even the BSDs have been getting a bit of love recently. That's where people will go when they finally get fed up with Windows/Google. I know I did, and my partner is not far behind.

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