Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
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#2When you choose Windows, the computer uses you. When you choose Linux, you use the computer. Stop complaining and start switching. It should be apparent by now that Microsoft isn't going to stop their bad behavior.
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#3I set up my brother in-law's new HP laptop he got from Costco and I had to spend over 2 hours removing crap from it. The amount of crapware installed (and a lot of them are MS apps) is unreal.
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#4It’s hard to believe that the loss of goodwill is worth whatever revenue Microsoft’s gaining from this, so I have to assume this is them dipping their toe into a strategy that attempts to make them more relevant to users. Maybe a reaction to the Windows app store’s lack of success? Thoughts?
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#5Windows 10 is a cancer. M$ removed the control from the user, and placed it to their money-hungry baboons.
It was clear since 8 and 8.1 that M$ will go for the "app model", where you are no longer the administrator on your own machine 'for your own protection'. I hope they come around, or they will just lose all their tech-savy customers.
I guess it's their turn to rip off their customers private-date/lives, just as Google does for some years now with Android.
I do see the benefits though for some users, but in my book, the privacy violation is worse than the benefits.
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#6I set up my brother in-law's new HP laptop he got from Costco and I had to spend over 2 hours removing crap from it. The amount of crapware installed (and a lot of them are MS apps) is unreal.
(Unfortunately) HP has been loading their machines with crapware for about a decade now. :(
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#7When you choose Windows, the computer uses you. When you choose Linux, you use the computer. Stop complaining and start switching. It should be apparent by now that Microsoft isn't going to stop their bad behavior.
It's never that simple, especially for professional users and gamers. Those whose applications are only available for Windows.
Sure, there are some open source alternatives, but they are only rarely as good, and even more seldom better, than their Windows counterparts.
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#8It's going to be odd if Win10 gets labeled as PUP (potentially unwanted program) by antivirus software.
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#9When you choose Windows, the computer uses you. When you choose Linux, you use the computer. Stop complaining and start switching. It should be apparent by now that Microsoft isn't going to stop their bad behavior.
Sorry Sir_Cmpwn, but that's happening with W10. Windows 8.1 with the 'Windows Firewall Control", classicshell, a strong HOSTS file (someonewhocares.org), and a Firefox with NoScript/ublock/adblock+/etc and you got your privacy control in order.
I do agree with the Linux argument you are making, but you cannot swerve 50% of the global Windows users into Linux. It still doesn't have the best UI reputation (although it gets the job done).
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#10When you choose Windows, the computer uses you. When you choose Linux, you use the computer. Stop complaining and start switching. It should be apparent by now that Microsoft isn't going to stop their bad behavior.
Sorry Sir_Cmpwn, but that's happening with W10. Windows 8.1 with the 'Windows Firewall Control", classicshell, a strong HOSTS file (someonewhocares.org), and a Firefox with NoScript/ublock/adblock+/etc and you got your privacy control in order. I do agree with the Linux argument you are making, but you cannot swerve 50% of the global Windows users into Linux. It still doesn't have the best UI reputation (although it…
You can't simultaneously talk about 50% of global Windows users and their struggles with UI and assume they have the foggiest idea how to set up a strong HOSTS file and a carefully secured Firefox installation. How about they just don't use a hostile OS? If you're defending yourself from your own operating system, you've chosen the wrong damn operating system.
Also, I don't want to hear the UI argument when KDE Plasma exists. I bet 90% or better of Windows users would be comfortable on Plasma.