• Gork@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m surprised they didn’t name it Clippy.

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    I run Windows 10 Enterprise for this reason - because unlike Home, you can turn any of their bullshit off with GPOs. But I’m tired of protecting myself against their OS, and once Win10 is EOL, I’ll be going to Linux after using Windows since the 3.1 days.

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    Are they going to ask or just do whatever they want with my computer?

    This is why I don’t date Microsoft employees.

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        1 year ago

        It certainly feels that way. I uninstall all the stuff I don’t want and the bastards put it right back in the next update, alongside some new crap I didn’t ask for.

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      Are they going to ask or just do whatever they want with my computer?

      There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust Windows. We are controlling Windows. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the firewall. We will control Windows Update. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your computer. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits.

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      1 year ago

      When you use a closed source proprietary OS like Windows, you’re renting, not buying. If you want to own, use Linux.

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    Jokes on them, my win10 setup won’t even update anymore. Can’t be bothered to do a reinstall.

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      I reinstalled win10 yesterday on a laptop that iam selling. The windows app store doesn’t work out of the box anymore. Just errorcodes. Its such a joke.

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      I’m in the same boat. My copy can’t see the bootloader, even though it’s booting >.<

      Linux is coming, as soon as I can be bothered

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    I actively hate co-pilot on my work computer. I really don’t want it doing the same stuff Cortana did. Popping up when I didn’t need or ask for it. I just want to search. Leave me alone.

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    The negative reaction to this kind of thing baffles me. I see it as a neat new feature that’ll make my life easier. But if for whatever reason you don’t like it… don’t use it. No biggie.

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      Yeah, it’s not like Microsoft’s style to force or nag their users into using whatever product. Nobody ever had any trouble turning off Onedrive, or uninstalling Edge.

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      We remember Cortana. Hard to not think about it and not expect a similar quality of implementation.

      Even today while disabled I continue to open Cortana by mistake… Which won’t work since it’s disabled…

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        Just this morning I was noodling through my start menu, as you do, and on a lark I right clicked and uninstalled Cortana. (This is on Windows 10.) Windows has never allowed me to do that before. You could disable it, you could hide it, but you could not uninstall it. The option just was not there. Some update somewhere along the line enabled an actual uninstall and I don’t know which one.

        Immediately I had a hunch they were planning to replace it with some new bullshit. That’s the only reason Microsoft would ever let it go.

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      There are many things on Windows people don’t like: Preinstalled bloatware, Edge, Microsoft spyware. As you simply cannot disable them under Windows, the only way not to use them is to upgrade to Linux, it seems.

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      If it follows the same pattern for all MS features, there will be a check box to turn it off, but it will be on by default. So if you don’t like it, turn it off and save your outrage, like me, for the absence of a vertical taskbar in Windows 11.

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        turn feature off

        windows needs to update

        feature mysteriously turned back on

        repeat ad nauseam

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          There are some dark patterns in the setup experience that might cause that.

          Turn off the “Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates…” and the “Suggest ways I can finish setting up…” options in settings.

          I bet if you’re having preferences change on you, it’s because you’re clicking ok or next without reading during these nag screens.

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            No. I have definitely had the “suggest ways to finish setting up” setting revert itself after quarterly Windows feature updates. There was no prompt and it never asked me. It also reverts my fast startup setting, which on my particular motherboard causes Windows to take half an hour to boot. So I tend to notice that one when it changes the setting behind my back.

            I find this immensely irritating. (The “finish setting up” option is the one that causes it to nag you every ~5 startups to create a Microsoft account, if you are using a local account like a sane person.)

            You can disable these in Group Policy Editor, if you are running Windows 10 Pro or any of its myriad enterprise versions, and have admin permissions. If you do that insofar as I have observed they stay disabled. If you are running Win10 home, I believe the trick still works where you can steal a copy of the Group Policy snap-in (gpedit.msc) from a Pro copy of Windows via flash drive or whatever and just plonk it in your Windows folder, and it works.

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        Super dumb they don’t have it by default, but there are third party projects to patch the functionality in at least

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      As long as it’s not running in the background using a single bit of my RAM then I’m fine with it tbh.