All those supposed “popups” you can disable. “Bloatware” you can uninstall and are added by the laptop manufacturer not Microsoft, and “advertisements” only happen once on a fresh install.
Almost like those supposedly tech savvy people don’t know what a setting is.
It is fine if you prefer Linux over Windows, but don’t go about just straight up lying about it.
I have modified a lot of settings too many to remember, but I also realized recently I am using an ancient windows education license nit the standard one. I bet that makes a big difference.
Candy crash in start menu along with a thousand other ads, inabiltiy to delete internet explorer and cortana until recently, asking to buy microsoft365 after every update, constant telemetey and tracking with no option to opt out completely, and so on.
This is just factually inaccurate corporate shill talk. In windows 10 I had to completely gut the Microsoft store using regedit to actually stop the ads that come directly from Microsoft. And then you can’t use the Xbox app (for access to game pass) which is basically the only reason I would want windows to start with (among other things it completely breaks) … And that’s a pc I built with a “clean” windows install.
When it “upgraded” itself to windows 11 despite opting out several times, and being bombarded with more ads and constant bs pop-ups, the last straw broke the camel’s back for me. Moved all my computers to Linux only and haven’t looked back.
It’s nice the EU is doing what it can to curb Microsoft’s invasive crap, but it also appears it only helps people in the EU and NA customers still get the bloated “OS” displaying more ads than an old geocities warez site.
I mean, I use a Windows 11 machine for work and play…spend probably 10 hours a day on the thing most days, and the only popups I ever remember getting are from Steam and the Epic game store…the most annoying thing I can remember that wasn’t vendor bloatware (that I removed once and haven’t thought about since) was disabling onedrive.
A short while ago i’ve decided to switch to linux. Just a sudden urge to freshen my experience. You know what? It’s easier to setup a fuckig linux than to disable all those shit on windows. Idk, it just was always so tiring for me to open regedit and gpedit, find all this bullshit i need to disable, and so on. I don’t know ho, and why, but even simple configuration is a pain. And even after that you won’t be able to uninstall windows defender, for example.
Also, tiling window managers rule, just as the ability to configure the keybindings. And the file system is not as cancerous: there are no bunch of different appdatas programdatas and lots of other places where the apps’ cache is stored.
I hope more people will start to switch to linux, so microsoft won’t be a de-facto monopolist. Even after that I won’t switch back tho, linux became far more comfortable for me, and it became so after a weirdly short acclimatisation period.
Five years ago I installed Windows 10 direct from Microsoft’s online store onto my Ubuntu laptop so I could play some Windows-only games.
It was fine for a while, but after some updates the Start menu began shoving ads (I believe Candy Crush was a big one) into my shortcut panels.
It’s true that I could go deleting them one-by-one, and probably hunt down settings to disable them, but I find it repulsive that I paid for an operating system only to be personally made into a product for Microsoft on top of that. I’ve decided I’m never going to spend another dollar on such predatory behavior, even if it means I’m throwing away a significant portion of my video game library.
Linux is free if you don’t value your free/personal time. I work on Linux servers all day at work, at home I just wanna chill, play games and have shit generally just work without issues.
All those supposed “popups” you can disable. “Bloatware” you can uninstall and are added by the laptop manufacturer not Microsoft, and “advertisements” only happen once on a fresh install.
Almost like those supposedly tech savvy people don’t know what a setting is.
It is fine if you prefer Linux over Windows, but don’t go about just straight up lying about it.
Even if you know windows and all those settings, windows pushed updates that add popups and bloatware.
So you don’t have a choice even if you do disable it uninstall things
Bro hasn’t used windows 11 recently i see.
I literally get daily ads from the Microsoft store. I HAVE TOAST MESSAGES DISABLED
Use it daily and don’t have any ads. Idk what is different with my setup
Same
I too don’t have any ads whatsoever.
I have modified a lot of settings too many to remember, but I also realized recently I am using an ancient windows education license nit the standard one. I bet that makes a big difference.
I recommend using this on any Windows machine:
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
maybe people shouldn’t have to do all that to use the system they paid for without being bombarded with ads
just a thought 🌈
Windows 11 is Microsoft bloatware and ads. They are getting more. The EU made Microsoft to add an option to disable ads because there was none.
Candy crash in start menu along with a thousand other ads, inabiltiy to delete internet explorer and cortana until recently, asking to buy microsoft365 after every update, constant telemetey and tracking with no option to opt out completely, and so on.
This is just factually inaccurate corporate shill talk. In windows 10 I had to completely gut the Microsoft store using regedit to actually stop the ads that come directly from Microsoft. And then you can’t use the Xbox app (for access to game pass) which is basically the only reason I would want windows to start with (among other things it completely breaks) … And that’s a pc I built with a “clean” windows install.
When it “upgraded” itself to windows 11 despite opting out several times, and being bombarded with more ads and constant bs pop-ups, the last straw broke the camel’s back for me. Moved all my computers to Linux only and haven’t looked back.
It’s nice the EU is doing what it can to curb Microsoft’s invasive crap, but it also appears it only helps people in the EU and NA customers still get the bloated “OS” displaying more ads than an old geocities warez site.
I mean, I use a Windows 11 machine for work and play…spend probably 10 hours a day on the thing most days, and the only popups I ever remember getting are from Steam and the Epic game store…the most annoying thing I can remember that wasn’t vendor bloatware (that I removed once and haven’t thought about since) was disabling onedrive.
A short while ago i’ve decided to switch to linux. Just a sudden urge to freshen my experience. You know what? It’s easier to setup a fuckig linux than to disable all those shit on windows. Idk, it just was always so tiring for me to open regedit and gpedit, find all this bullshit i need to disable, and so on. I don’t know ho, and why, but even simple configuration is a pain. And even after that you won’t be able to uninstall windows defender, for example.
Also, tiling window managers rule, just as the ability to configure the keybindings. And the file system is not as cancerous: there are no bunch of different appdatas programdatas and lots of other places where the apps’ cache is stored.
I hope more people will start to switch to linux, so microsoft won’t be a de-facto monopolist. Even after that I won’t switch back tho, linux became far more comfortable for me, and it became so after a weirdly short acclimatisation period.
Five years ago I installed Windows 10 direct from Microsoft’s online store onto my Ubuntu laptop so I could play some Windows-only games.
It was fine for a while, but after some updates the Start menu began shoving ads (I believe Candy Crush was a big one) into my shortcut panels.
It’s true that I could go deleting them one-by-one, and probably hunt down settings to disable them, but I find it repulsive that I paid for an operating system only to be personally made into a product for Microsoft on top of that. I’ve decided I’m never going to spend another dollar on such predatory behavior, even if it means I’m throwing away a significant portion of my video game library.
Good news is proton fucking rules these days
Just stick to a rolling release distro and you’re good to go
My answer to these kinds of statements is always 👏🏼use👏🏼enterprise👏🏼edition
Edit: It’s also a way to stick it to MS because you have to pirate it basically.
Ok but linux is free and good
Linux is free if you don’t value your free/personal time. I work on Linux servers all day at work, at home I just wanna chill, play games and have shit generally just work without issues.
I mean, the post is about using a Steam Deck. It doesn’t get much more effortless than that.
You don’t have to go out of your way to install a bleeding-edge distro that needs janitoring.
Yeah, I don’t have money for a steam deck, any the fact that the first sentence spoke about the steam deck doesn’t mean that the rest of it was.
LTSC all the way
They don’t advertise OneDrive?
Braindead comment: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7qy6dz8gEM
https://www.techjunkie.com/onedrive-ads-windows-10-file-explorer/
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://m.piped.video/watch?v=f7qy6dz8gEM
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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