The mass exodus from #Windows to #Linux (and #Mac) due to #Windows11 and #AI continues. More and more articles, more and more youtube videos about it, or posts on forums. People are switching. If it continues like that, Linux should have 10% desktop marketshare by the end of the decade (and yes, that's a lot).
Things I learned about performing a Windows 11 install to avoid bloatware if anyone is interested in trying this:
You can set it to English (World) on the time and currency format dropdown in Setup (I believe this has to be when you boot straight off the media and it doesn't appear to work if you run setup.exe from within Windows and this appears to be exclusive to Windows 11).
Once you've connected to the Internet, you will not see any of the pinned tiles for apps that you do not have installed, for example, no Netflix, WhatsApp, Spottify, LinkedIn, etc.
After setup completes, however, you need to switch the region back to US and it has to be done through Settings, not the region dialog (careful observation shows that the world entry will disappear from the country or region dropdown once you switch it back so I believe it's not even supposed to exist in the first place which is where the bug is).
You will have lots of nasty consequences if you don't switch the region back such as not being able to reach the activation servers.
You will, however, still see English (world) reflected on your sign in screen but as long as everything is set to US or another (supported) region for you everything should work fine. I figured out other stuff pertaining to setup today but I need to test those more before I publicly post them. #Windows#WindowsSetup#Windows11
All Microsoft Windows users shall now have their every keystroke recorded, every document, every copy and paste, sent to Microsoft, and used to train a neural network used to track your every move, so that they can "improve the quality of ads that they serve to you" (not an exact quote). In exchange for forfeiting your privacy and freedom, you get in return a moderately useful predictive AI that can sometimes do the thing you wanted to do on you computer before you do it (but have take the effort to correct it when it gets things wrong). Isn't modern technology awesome!
If you’ve been running #Windows11 on a PC that is outside of the system requirements, the next major update to the OS will prevent your PC from booting up.
Today, I'm setting up a #Windows11 device for the first time. So far, my desktop icons are checkboxes, mnemonics in the Win+X menu are announced in a nonsensical way that includes the Alt key, I hear an ad for the Glastonbury Festival each time I open the Start Menu, and I've twice lost audio after a reboot. #accessibility
The newest most powerful chips from Intel and AMD don't qualify for Microsoft's newest CoPilot+ AI branding. We're already seeing INCREDIBLE deals on crazy powerful PCs, because of all the AI hype! Here's my review of the Geekom A8, with a BEAST of an AMD chip inside! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45e
#Windows11 devient officiellement un logiciel publicitaire : #Microsoft intègre des publicités dans le menu Démarrer, visibles pour tout le monde.
😡🤬😡🤬😡
Heureusement, elles sont encore (pour combien de temps ?) désactivables dans les paramètres.
Comme le dit si bien @sebsauvage :
« Et dire qu'il y en a qui payent pour avoir ça...! »
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Ganz toll gemacht, #Microsoft! Das nächste #Windows Upgrade verwandelt geschätzt 240 Millionen PCs in #Elektroschrott? Ich nehme an, dass diese Zahl alleine nur für Deutschland gilt. Ich möchte nicht wissen, wieviele das weltweit sind.
Ich fürchte, die Menschen lernen nie, dass Windoof nicht das alleinglücklichmachende Betriebssystem ist.
💡 En quoi GNU / #Linux est plus facile & pratique que #Microsoft#Windows ?
➡️ Lorsque l'on MàJ le système, tous les logiciels le sont aussi (c'est aussi rapide, transparent et sans reboot)
➡️ Pour faire un "É", il suffit de faire "Ver Maj" puis "é" (idem pour : ç è à)
➡️ Pas de fichue base de registre 💩
➡️ Pas de fragmentation 💩 du disque (DD mécaniques)
➡️ Pas besoin d'antivirus
📝 Et vous, que rajouteriez-vous ? 🤔
#️⃣ #GAFAM#Windows10#Windows11#OpenSource#LogicielsLibres#FreeSoftware
Windows 11 has reached an absurd level of obnoxiousness with mandatory accounts, bundled random microsoft crap, and intrusive offers to upsell me on office360 and whatnot. Especially for an OS I have to pay for, this is pretty ridiculous.
I only have Win11 on a machine as a "Steam HAL" for gaming. Given Valve's progress on SteamDeck I am hopeful that within a few years I'll be able to ditch Windows entirely and still have everything I need for PC gaming.
"it’s possible the company could decide to ditch these ads in development builds of Windows 11 if there’s enough feedback that suggests they’re not going to be a popular addition."