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		spixy 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source Because 90% of software run only on Windows. As a software dev I understand that having telemetry is a good thing. I dont believe it is "extremely invasive". And I have no idea what AI features you mean (at least on Win10).

udev4096 9 months ago [–]

It is definitely in win11. Might be less on win10. Maybe try using something like simplewall [0], which shows prompts for every network request that phones home

[0] - https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

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