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I’m not a big fan of these features and i turn them off right away. MS is going to where the consumers are. anyone under 30 will expect this content . imagine a 20 year old using windows 2k and the only real apps are notepad and ms paint . We give companies too much blame for providing consumers what they want. MS could do a better job with transparency and control of these features. But i don’t believe the blame is…
"I have never looked back since. I stopped buying new laptops every few months and got myself a new MacBook every few years instead. I stopped counting crashes and dealing with anti-virus" This is a quote around them using Win 7/8. There's definitely some hyperbole going on here, because I and many others found Windows 7 to be a relatively stable environment and I say this as a prolific user of Photoshop, visual stud…
Overall, Win11 is, in my opinion, the second best OS Microsoft ever released, the best one being the venerable NT4.
But this is true that when installing it, there is some annoying cleaning work to be done, and this is clearly not good, especially for a -professional- tool.
I don't have time for this now, but I plan to migrate everything on a good Linux distro at some point.
Setup your 10 year old with bleeding edge Arch Linux, add a script to automatically update nightly (or even hourly lol), and give them a secondary device like a tablet loaded up with access to arch wiki, every man page, etc. but nothing else. They will be an absolute Linux wizard in months and maybe a core contributor soon after.
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100% this. My journey was Windows to OSX to Linux. Couldn’t be happier. I just want a good Linux phone to free me from Apple altogether.
Isn’t Android Linux?
> Isn’t Android Linux?
Yes, but it isn't good, especially not in the ways that desktop Linux is good.
Reminder: this thread is about avoiding anti-consumer behavior from manufacturers. Android is practically useless for that.
For those times I find the following tools really useful.
But like the article says... its is hard to trust a company that build all this adware crap into my OS in the first place. =P
* O&O ShutUp10++ – Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 || https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
(I turn all the recommend options off, and then re-enable Clipboard History.)
* GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. || https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
(And if you block things at the host level, remember to disable DNS Caching.)
* How to disable Windows 10 DNS Cache services || https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a0...
* Wise Program Uninstaller - Uninstall, Remove or Force Uninstall Programs Completely || https://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-program-uninstaller.html
Having never lived in a Windows world I had no idea what life was like on the other side. So many times on HN I read about how MacOS is bad for the user, locked down, rubbish etc etc. But if this article is true then Windows 11 is absolutely insane. That is what anti consumer looks like. Not SIP. Not poor documentation. Not first party apps. While those of us who use Apple’s OS fear for the worst, those in Windows ap…
I miss the consistency that I had with Windows 7 (renaming a file anywhere with the F2 key), but those days are over.
With Mac I still don't know what the Mac / option / control / fn / shift keys mean and can't remember keyboard shortcuts, so I'm much more dependent on the touchpad, but at least the touchpad is awesome.
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If they wanted to remove that option, they would have done it as part of the Apple Silicon transition. Apple might have its issues (App Store, Right to Repair, etc), but they seem quite set on not locking down the Mac.
I dunno. Seems like a boiling frog scenario. They keep adding hoops and one day they'll lock it away. There's no reason they had to wait for the start of the AS transition to do it either. Over the Intel era we saw them lock things down with the introduction of the T1 and T2 chips. AS was another small leap. Maybe M4 will introduce something else like software fuses to prevent rollback or something.
It's infuriating how much work one has to do to clean up what should already be a bare-bones, stock, factory environment. All of these 8 kb "apps" like LinkedIn, TikTok, etc. that you "uninstall" but then re-appear right in the Add or Remove Programs menu. I haven't tried, but what do these little TikTok, LinkedIn apps even do? I imagine they don't install a local version of LinkedIn to peruse, right? I don't totally…