Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "DistroTube" channel.

@nobleradical2158 To be fair to the Microsoft community, it's an ancient and time-honored tradition. As soon as you boot up your new Windows device, you fire up IE (or now Edge) and execute the one voluntary Bing search that computer will ever see in order to download a halfway decent browser.
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@SilverSpade_ To be fair to Edge though, you don't actually need to open it for Microsoft to collect your data. By default if you type in the start menu search bar in Win10 it'll upload your search letter by letter and give you various Bing suggestions it hopes you like. When I tried to disable it, I found you could disable viewing the results by default but there wasn't a way do disable the search from being carried out in the first place. Nor is it easy to find information about exactly what Microsoft does with that data. I doubt they just throw it away, but that's just my prejudice. There may now be a setting to turn off the automatic searches completely as I last looked around a year ago, but honestly I doubt it.
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Ah yes, the obligatory "must say GNU/Linux" comment. I use Arch btw
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@jimw7916 I feel like we should start insisting on "macOS/Unix" for now on too... (I use Arch btw)
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@drooplug A good operating system should be capable of running even on sub-par systems, especially if it has as wide a target market as Windows.
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@drooplug By subpar I meant systems that aren't that great. I.e. relatively low ram, slow processor, small hard drive. The reason they should be supported stems from the fact that a lot of people have these kinds of computers, whether due to just having old hardware or the relatively low price. For free software like Linux, it increases the usefulness of the software to have some way to run it on these systems, besides potentially aligning with the political/moral views of various groups. For commercial software such as Windows, it widens the userbase i.e. more customers and thus more money if you squeeze them right. That's applicable to general-purpose personal computer OSes. Obviously if we start talking about mainframe/server OSes the equation is different. Or indeed embedded systems, where you'll often have very little of anything and you need the system to be just big enough to get the job done.
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@dkosmari Although considering the usefulness of config files, one might consider it a problem of education regarding what the files are for and how they work
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