I do agree with you to a certain extent, the difference between yours and my view is that I've been using and enabling TPM for bitlocker for businesses since Windows 8. To me, using a TPM chip to encrypt a drive is just standard affair. It's about time your average consumer got more security and not just businesses.
Here's the thing,. While I'm aware that the TPM is protection against outside attack, I still have no need of it. I'm a bachelor, an orphan, an only child, and a sociopath.. Hence, I have absolutely no need of passwords, or encrypted drives, since nobody lives with me, and I don't allow visitors. My house has an alarm system, which may not seem as though it has a positive effect on the computer's security, but it does. The police will be here, long before anyone gains access to my systems. My only constant companions are my three cats, and they are less capable of of managing a computer system than I.
Besides, if I need a drive encrypted, I can always wait for a passing piece of ransomware to do it for me.
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There's very little on my internet machine that I can't afford to lose, and there's a spare C;/ drive sitting on top of the one powering the machine.
So, while my somewhat bleak existence may not appeal to many, it works like a charm for me.
So basically, you hate Microsoft for forcing the TPM requirement (even though it doesn't affect you) but you don't hate them enough to learn a competing product.
No, I didn't hate M$, until they put Satya Nadella in charge of it.. Windows 8 was a cruel joke, and and Win 10 arrived with Mr. Nadella. So, here I am at Win 7, and quite content to be there.
As I was saying in another post, "the way to commit the perfect murder, is to make it look like an accident"..
If you want to introduce planned obsolescence, draw attention away from it by constantly shouting, "improvement in security", through a bullhorn", and you've managed to commit the perfect computer crime, and the need for all new hardware looks like an accident.
I have a specific strong dislike of doing business with people of Indian descent (No, I'm not a racist, but I am "ethnocentric"). And no, it's not a matter of predisposition, it's a matter of experiences
I walked into a vape shop last weekend, run by two gentleman of Indian descent. They really weren't interested in answering any questions, just if I wanted to buy more product. At the ring out, I handed them my bank card, punched in my PIN number, and they rang up the sale. While the register had a screen facing me. The sale completed, and I expected to see the total on said screen. All I got was a blank red screen, along with no receipt. I actually had to go home and log into my bank account to find out how much I had been charged. If this were a random incident, I wouldn't mention it. But it is the thing I've come to expect, (and them some), with people from that culture. So, Nadella's tactics of ramming Windows 10 down the public's throat will never be forgiven or forgotten. "It's just another brick in the Wall", so to speak. My short term memory is getting a bit dodgy, but my long term recall, is up and running well.
As for Linux, I would swear that Ubuntu has become more hardware intensive than XP. Every system I've tried it on, has wound up with video crashes. So, I'm only in computers and by extension Techspot, to study other computer enthusiast's behaviour, and for the laughs. "Bash this", or "apt get that"., "open a terminal", doesn't really appeal to me all that much. Yes, I'm guilty of being a lazy, apathetic, chronic Windows addict / user. (As long as it's lucky number seven")..
I figure if I have a decent AV running, and use some common sense, Win 7 will do just fine, and I won't have to put up with the bullsh!t, propaganda, and garbage, that's coming out of Redmond these days.
Oh and BTW, I spelled "behavior", "behaviour", out of respect for you and possibly the queen. Ex prince Harry and his Megan hag, are a nuisance though, Please take them back,:won't cha?.
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