nope I’m on home and I’ve never seen any start menu ads or shit like that (default configuration is pretty bad tho), except pre-pinned stuff that can just be unpinned (pro also has it too)
there’s no reason to use pro except GPO, and if you only care about local group policies, you can just poke the registry
I always suggested that they tell their software team to offer sincere entreatments of self harm to management. No one actually reads them so my malignant rage was hardly even rude. If anyone on the windows software team is reading this, I still hate whoever came up with this. Forward my regards to your boss. Regards
If you want to avoid this latest OneDrive nonsense, then feel free to open Task Manager, search for Microsoft OneDrive, and end that task the old-school way.
Or download Rufus and use it to create a Linux install flash drive.
Don’t forget to remove Edge with a third party tool or a registry hack, disable the search and news fields in the taskbar (again), also you should probably check if all telemetry settings were switched back on with the last update, by the way why haven’t you subscribed to M365 yet, that’s why we forced you to create an account after all? and please fill out this survey before we let you log in without giving us your phone number.
Or I could just ignore the things I don’t use. You guys blow this way out of proportion. Don’t get me wrong, I love the simplicity and barebonesness of Linux OSs, I have a desktop install and run a home server using it too. But does the presence of edge or news affect me? No.
I worry about the telemetry and customizing my OS to exactly the way I want.
Things like swapping Ctrl and Alt without needing to spring extreme protocols or run software that is a security risk. It’s just a couple of toggles on Linux.
But it’s a “to each their own” kinda stuff 😅 After work I can’t look at Windows anymore.
Edge affects me cause with every typo in the desktop search, Edge opens and then springs like 5 popups and notifications on me that don’t have close buttons.
And the news widget pops up whenever I happen to touch it with the cursor.
Things like this aren’t a problem by themselves but if you use the OS a lot, they all add up to a really annoying UX.
And I’m reminded every day that Microsoft controls what happens on my PC, not me.
Entirely eliminating proprietary garbage like Windows from your life sounds better to me. After a couple of Windows Updates OneDrive, Edge and all the other garbage you uninstall will be back, Windows behaves like fucking malware, it’s a cancer. On Linux, won’t ever have to deal with this garbage ever again. You will also have access to much better package managers than winget.
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