If you thought that Microsoft was done with Recall after its catastrophic reveal as the main feature of Copilot+ PCs, you are mistaken.

Microsoft wants to bring it back this October 2024. Good news is that the company plans to introduce it in test builds of the Windows 11 operating system in October. In other words: do not expect the feature to hit stable Windows 11 PCs before 2025 at the earliest.

While Recall may have sounded great on paper and on work-related PCs, users and experts alike expressed concern. Users expressed fears that malware could steal Recall data to know exactly what they did in the past couple of months.

Others did not trust Microsoft to keep the data secure. We suggested to make Recall opt-in, instead of opt-out, to make sure that users knew what they were getting into when enabling it.

Microsoft pulled the Recall feature shortly after its announcement and published information about its future in June. There, Microsoft said that it would make Recall opt-in by default. It also wanted to improve security by enrolling in Windows Hello and other features.

    • Gormadt
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      3 months ago

      IDK why they want to but to me the name seems pretty catchy

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      3 months ago

      I’m guessing maybe the scheduler? Its the only real difference I see versus the other gaming distros.

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      3 months ago

      Just some performance I’ve seen people get from it and the nvidia bits. Still need to research before I decide though.

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        3 months ago

        Thing with cachy is that it doesnt do anything better than other distros when it comes to nvidia drivers, its entire focus is giving you like maybe 5% better performance at the cost of worse stability, so i really would not recommend it to new users.

        I’d say use something like bazzite or pop_os! instead.

        Feel free to dm me if you want help.

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          3 months ago

          Thanks! My cousin used pop and was a fan tbf. I do like stability but also hoping, as I don’t work on my personal PC, that some instability would revitalise my enjoyment of tinkering. I have become used to the comforts of stability as I’ve aged. Haven’t really played with Linux since the Red Hat 7 days…! I used to use Unix back then for FORTRAN but yeah of late just forgotten everything.

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          3 months ago

          How does using avx instructions reduce stability?

          source? or did you mean arch is unstable?

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            3 months ago

            Well, i just meant that all the changes cachy does (on top of being arch based) means it just isnt as stable as some other options

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        3 months ago

        its whole deal is that they try and squeeze every ounce of performance out for gaming