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MS being MS. Lots on this site said it's a new MS, no more of the old shenanigans and yet here we are...
It was a “new Microsoft” because they stopped making windows the center of their existence.
now windows takes a lower priority behind xbox even within it’s own division.
Just drag it to the trash and move on with life. It takes two seconds.
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“ Linux is only free if your time has no value”
That line seems to often be said in threads where people are fighting against Microsoft's latest barrage of dark patterns. For some reason the time spent on dealing with that is never compared fairly: "Windows is only usable if your time has no value".
No amount of effort is going to make windows usable when there’s a company actively working to make it user-hostile
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Games.
I saw your same - not really valuable - comment above. If you're using Windows for games only, then having or not having an Edge icon on the desktop is not an issue. If you're using it professionally, then it's annoying, along with all the ads, tracking, dark patterns and other bullshit you receive in Windows - especially that you already pay for a license. Compare that with Linux, which mostly gets out of your way,…
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I saw your same - not really valuable - comment above. If you're using Windows for games only, then having or not having an Edge icon on the desktop is not an issue. If you're using it professionally, then it's annoying, along with all the ads, tracking, dark patterns and other bullshit you receive in Windows - especially that you already pay for a license. Compare that with Linux, which mostly gets out of your way,…
> It always feels good to go back to Linux, where you can play most non-AAA game titles anyway. With Proton you can play most games now. AAA or not. Like, Death Stranding, it works.
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I think it's called Windows Server
I ran 2012 R2 as a daily driver for a long time.
Now I'm on 2016, and actually just today started to investigate where to go from here. Probably will stick with Windows (2022) as host OS for my VMs.
Not if you switch to Mac!
And now you still don't control your system; you've just swapped your master for a different one. :D Open-source is the only way to freedom. (And, fittingly, it's not the easiest.)
With Microsoft, I never enjoy their defaults, and they'll shove it down your throat. With Linux, there are no defaults, and I have to invest a lot of my limited time setting everything up.
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> The workaround is to uninstall Windows
A theoretically perfect but largely non-viable solution.
i used to do an enormous amount of Windows XP regedit tweaking and customization, using sysprep, rolling service packs into new ISOs, making use of https://ryanvm.net/forum/ scripts.
all of that has become practically impossible now. every update resets everything, regedits no longer work, and each update brings back the bloatware you've debloated using things like https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows.
the only recourse now is to disable TPM 2.0, which is a Win11+ requirement. or pirate that fabled LTSC windows edition because, you know, you can't actually buy it.
in 2020 after an unpreventable Win10 update fucked up my dual boot setup i finally called it quits and switched to EndevourOS (Arch) KDE/Plasma and haven't looked back; fuck Windows and its aggressive rent-seeking.