Windows is not “fine” aside from all the non-UI stuff, they’re UI is annoying and slow to me, they moved things behind extra clicks/commands to make it “clean”- stuff I actually use.
And then there’s the whole tracking usage to drop adds in your notification thing… which is a privacy nightmare.
I mean I’m cheering for Linux adoption too, but I’ve never received an ad beyond the initial install crapware app stubs. I do a sweep on the system settings, clean the junk, and I’m off to the races.
For the unsuspecting users, the privacy concerns are quite bad though.
I havent had that happen, either - between 6 machines I manage and about the same number of reinstalls over the years, from 10 rtm to present 22H2 (or whatever its up to now); I’ve heard the claim by many, but my evidence is nil.
https://i.postimg.cc/NB5Lp7ZS/195124.png
Its right here with the most recent update, and no obvious way to remove them. I don’t want OneDrive, I don’t want Office 365. Get it out of my face.
That’s not the notification tray, though? I mean bleh but you have to go searching for that, and it is somewhat relevant given that most users are logged into their MS account, and this is the accounts settings page… am I missing something?
i have to use microshite crap every day.
It outdoes oracle at generating curse words.
and it gets worse. i’d take windows 2000 or nt4 over whatever shit they force on me at work.
Windows is not “fine” aside from all the non-UI stuff, they’re UI is annoying and slow to me, they moved things behind extra clicks/commands to make it “clean”- stuff I actually use.
And then there’s the whole tracking usage to drop adds in your notification thing… which is a privacy nightmare.
I mean I’m cheering for Linux adoption too, but I’ve never received an ad beyond the initial install crapware app stubs. I do a sweep on the system settings, clean the junk, and I’m off to the races.
For the unsuspecting users, the privacy concerns are quite bad though.
On win 10 that crapware would reinstall on every feature update.
I havent had that happen, either - between 6 machines I manage and about the same number of reinstalls over the years, from 10 rtm to present 22H2 (or whatever its up to now); I’ve heard the claim by many, but my evidence is nil.
I keep seeing ads in my notifications on my windows installation for windows store items or bing.
Out of curiosity, do you have a screenshot? Unless I have always been the B/control group in A/B testing or something, it sounds super weird.
https://i.postimg.cc/NB5Lp7ZS/195124.png Its right here with the most recent update, and no obvious way to remove them. I don’t want OneDrive, I don’t want Office 365. Get it out of my face.
Truly atrocious smh
That’s not the notification tray, though? I mean bleh but you have to go searching for that, and it is somewhat relevant given that most users are logged into their MS account, and this is the accounts settings page… am I missing something?
No, I only boot into windows when I game, so its been a couple days since I’ve gotten one of the notifications.
isn’t the windows search bar a giant always on ad for edge and Bing?
also windows advertises a lot of their cloud/subscription services in notifications and settings to me
I suppose - I always disable it as part of my initial setup steps, I have actually never used it.
I’ve only seen shilling for 360 in the account panel, though. Never in the notification tray.
You can turn that off
yeah, through registry keys
no normal user is going to do that
Registry is just the settings panel in windows now
But the normal user can download random programs off the internet to do it for them
bloat at best, virus at worst
regedit isn’t hard enough to justify a registry editor app
We are talking about normal users
The ones whom in yesteryear would have half their browser be toolbars
+1
i have to use microshite crap every day.
It outdoes oracle at generating curse words.
and it gets worse. i’d take windows 2000 or nt4 over whatever shit they force on me at work.
windows peaked at windows 7/xp then went down the drain
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I liked some earlier win10 versions too but that was also before I tried Linux.