Imagine owning anything, anything you “buy” is just a perpetual license ever so graciously offered to you by MegaCorp, ready to be changed or taken away whenever they feel like they need even more money.
I know that this is just Microsoft trying get user feedback but because it’s Microsoft, it still seems bad. It’s just seems so disingenuous when a company like Microsoft, that usually ignores all user feedback, tries to get user feedback for a product that, if they actually listened to user feedback, they would already know that a majority of Windows users don’t want.
You could also open its executable with a hex editor and mangle its header. That’d sure keep it from running, regardless of what anyone else on the computer fiddled with. Or being “helpfully” relaunched by the system, despite your efforts.
Not sure if Windows Update would notice and overwrite the file. Maybe after you do this, mark it read only.
“Are you sure about your decision? Have you thought it through? Gone through all the pros and cons (there are only pros btw)? What if we asked pretty please? Ok what if we tickle your balls a little, what then?”
Listen, Microsoft, it doesn’t work for bullied kids trying to get friends, and it doesn’t work for you.
this pushed me to try linux again for the second time. but all i do on my pc is game mostly. i couldn’t get the games i was playing at the time to work so i quit. i spent 3 days trying to get resident evil 4 and guardians of the galaxy to work over a single ad for fallout-in-space-game.
i’ve settled on disabling “get fun facts, tips, tricks and more on your lock screen” check box in personalization >> lock screen
Were you referencing protondb.com for information about those games? I see they’re rated silver and gold, respectively, so both should work with some tinkering. Silver might be a bit much for a linux newbie.
I did. I started trying with guardians of the galaxy and gave up after I couldn’t get re4 working, which like you said was gold. I’ll probably give it another shot soon. I’ve been playing a lot of FFXIV and apparently that runs well.
I have an extra m2 slot I’m going to buy a drive dedicated to trying to get off the Microsoft teat.
Does it feel better to have done that, or does it feel better to tell people about it? I still use windows with what it’s good at. And I’ll use the rest for what they are good at. Brand loyalty is stupid.
Them: I ditched [brand] because their product wasn’t a good fit for me
You: Stop talking about your tech product choices! What do you think this is, a public forum where people talk about technology?? Brand loyalty is stupid, but also I’m annoyed that you left Windows. I use Windows btw.
I know it’s repetitive, but (some) people still don’t seem to hear it. Everyone complains about windows doing a million annoying things, but so few actually consider an alternative. Some people need to be reminded that they don’t need to wait for Microsoft to fix their problems. Admittedly, I doubt very many of those are in this community, or on this platform though.
We’re discussing yet another anti-consumer dark-pattern implemented in Windows. These changes aren’t going to stop. The so-called enshitification will continue.
What do you expect people to do? Not talk about the viable alternatives? Just say “that sucks but I really think we should stick to Windows, guys. Deep down, Microsoft has our backs 🪟🥰”?
It’s almost as if we’re on Technology, a place to discuss technology. Such as OSes.
I find it funny that you’re on Lemmy - presumably because you found Reddit to be hostile to their users - and yet you’re getting annoyed about people complaining about a platform being hostile to their users. Ironic, no?
People here have a big hate boner for Microsoft. I’m with you, this is such a non issue that doesn’t affect anyone, people just like to scream at things I guess. I await an explanation on how selecting a drop down absolutely destroyed productivity or usability.
Especially infuriating is that I use OneDrive for work and I’ve got it running all the time but Microsoft decided I need another instance of it running, that I then have to close every time it decides to start up again. What?
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