My policy has always been if you want me to use your crap, you provide the hardware. And if they still insist, they get to live with their garbage running inside a VM.

There’s exactly 0% chance I’m letting corporate spyware touch my data or have full access to my hardware. Between being able to lock down the operating system and remotely wipe the device, that shit cannot be trusted.

I see your point, but as someone who prefers my home folder be my home folder, I prefer they put it under ~/.config regardless of what operating system is being used.

No. Hiding files is still just an attribute.

Actually, technically, it’s two. Files marked as system files are treated as hidden as well…

Epic Games is also a private company… and they’re the posterchild for “fuck the consumer, we want a monopoly.”

It might have something to do with Epic being partly owned by Tencent and Disney, but it more likely comes down to the philosophies of their CEOs. Gabe came from a corporate shithole and runs with the diametrically-opposed view that good service = loyal customers = profit. Sweeney, not so much.

“They broke the law,” tweeted the motherfucker who never respected it in the first place…