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Comment Re:Does Windows 8 have an opt-out feature? (Score 1) 489

A fresh Windows install means a lot of your hardware doesn't work and you have to hunt for drivers from third party websites. This is particularly fun if it is your wireless network card that isn't working. For the most part, hardware "just works" in Linux these days.

You seem to be comparing XP to Linux here. For Win7, chances are very good that your hardware will just work out of the box. If it doesn't, it'll use Windows Update to automatically find and download drivers, so the only thing that needs to be working out of the box is networking - and I've yet to see a Win7 install where that wasn't the case.

Unless its new(er) hardware. My Radeon HD 6750 doesn't work OOB on Win7 (does on Linux), my Asus WiFi card, sme thing.. Hell, even my old SB Audigy 2 Value doesnt work OOB on Win7, and yet it does on Linux... (tested using LinuxMint 12 and 13.. So... NEXT!

Comment Re:privacy? (Score 1) 302

No, I don't feel guilty, and I have nothing to hide, however, where I go and who I visit throughout the day is **MY** business. Not the local cops. I like having what little shreds of privacy I have left in my own PERSONAL, PRIVATE life. It is people like YOU who think that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" that are causing all of MY rights to privacy to be eroded and taken away.

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