Microsoft, probably: “StartAllBack? Nope, ya little twit, you will use our start menu AND YOU WILL LIKE IT! No installing any of that crap on your our computer!”
Apparently it’s not that the software is broken, it’s that the software being installed breaks Windows Update. There are reports from people that uninstalling StartAllBack, updating the OS, then reinstalling it back (renaming the install executable first) works fine.
As much as being affected by this is frustrating to me (though this is all happening still on the dev channel, so for me it’ll be a problem for the future), I understand Microsoft’s rationale here. They can’t be expected to support every third-party tool that can break the OS, and it’s known that both ExplorerPatcher and StartAllBack relies on many hacks using undocumented APIs to work.
In the last few decades that I’ve been using Windows, I never felt compelled to use shell replacements or customizations - the default experience always worked fine for me with a few tweaks. So, if anything I’m more frustrated at Microsoft that I’m forced to use StartAllBack, because MS went and removed options from the shell that existed forever and always took for granted, and then some.
They can’t be expected to support every third-party tool that can break the OS
They don’t have to support it. They just have to let it break. It is your PC. They can issue notifications to their system and add these apps to their troubleshooter as possible conflicts.
What they abso-fucking-lutely cannot be allowed to do is to decide what software you’re allowed to run on your PC. This is a dangerous precedent and a slippery slope.
I use AtlasOS tweaks with Windows 10 and my system never suggests an upgrade to Windows 11 although updates and MS Store works fine. AtlasOS is the thing that make Windows at least usable.
Thanks, I can’t access this site, because it says I have to diseable my adblocker, my adblocker is off on this site, but I don’t feel like deactivating the other protections. Suspicious if a page requires you to enter naked. in Make use of the same thing happens, with the same reasons for not trusting.
That works, but if you do not have an alternative when it is not the case of tabloid articles, you can use the archive.org / archive.is / ghostarchive.org method. And there are many extensions that allow opening current webpages directly from there.
For me personally, I like having my taskbar at the top of the screen. MS removed the ability to change the position of the taskbar in W11. It does a lot more than that, potentially giving you an almost XP like experience if that’s what you want.
The enshitification of Windows compared to macOS has really accelerated a lot recently it seems. I work with both daily and it is weird and irritating how much extra crap keeps getting hurled willy-nilly into Windows updates this last year.
I don’t think it calls home about that. It just looks if there are any „incompatible“ applications installed and blocks the update if it finds any. I guess the goal is to not break anything.
But sure, you can spin it into a “fuck Microsoft” narrative.
soon, hopefully. i actually noticed that people tend to react much less surprised to a computer running linux nowadays, which seems like a good sign to me.
No but it absolutely should be, because people wouldn’t allow a person standing in their living room, writing down everything they do on their computers. But since it’s not visible to the user when it happens, they don’t care. But it’s actually disgusting behavior, we just got used to not being able to stop it.
Why should we contribute to these companies getting rich from selling our private data??
As you can read in line 35,863 of the Terms of Service you agreed to:
Fuck you you fucking piece of shit. We own you, all of your data, your computer, and your first born child. Just fucking try and sue us. Were worth a trillion fucking dollars, what are you worth? $150,000 of student loan debt for that degree you don’t even use? When we say jump you jump. When we say uninstall the software, you uninstall that fucking software. Capiche?
Those are some interesting choices of apps. Considering some of those sound like professional tools (SOLIDWORKS pdm) or basic drivers/tools (Radeon software, Intel drivers), they may be about to drive more people away from their OS.
You mean the opposite. Booting up your work PC and finding out you can’t do your job because Windows decide to update and break all your software is quite rage-inducing.
For what it’s worth, other Start menu replacements like Start11 and Open Shell’s menu aren’t on the list. This might genuinely be a compatibility-related blocker given that iCloud, EaseUS and certain drivers are also on the list.
Considering all the Bloatware that Microsoft has been pumping out lately (don’t get me started or Outlook), this may be a good excuse to get a Radeon Graphics Card.
If I can be guaranteed that installing this software will prevent having to deal with CoPilot, I would jump on that straight away.
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