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You do not own the OS. You didn't create it, and you don't even own a copy of it. You have a very limited license to it, as in permission to use it in a very specific manner, and no other rights other than those that you were granted. If you look closely even those rights may be subject to change, and change without your approval. Microsoft, under their current license, is free to do whatever they want to their OS, a…
I just don't get it. I genuinely don't see most of this. Yes, the solitaire etc issue is there, and the account sign-in, but my Windows 11 start menu is clear, uncluttered, and ad-free - Windows just keeps out of my way. I don't know if it is something to do with using my own retail Windows 11 license (which was a free upgrade from Windows 10, which was free from Windows 8, which was free from a purchase of Windows 7…
If I remember correctly from when I installed Windows 11, none of those ads get put in the Start menu if you upgrade from Windows 10. They didn't want to scare off the users who actually had an easily accessible choice to downgrade. Installing a new copy of Windows 11 on a machine that didn't have anything on it previously was what resulted in ads being put in the start menu for me.
I've read about loads of similar experiences over the last few years and had the same confusion. I think this is the first time somebody has pointed out the likely reason :)
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To be fair to Microsoft this was a Lenovo laptop. Though why Microsoft continues to do business with a company that thought it was a good idea to install a root certificate (with a publicly known private key) onto every single laptop they sold so they could MITM some ads into websites is beyond me.
I have a Microsoft computer (a Surface Laptop) and it's not that bad. There are dumb news stories in the search menu and it pleadingly tries to stop you from using Firefox, but then the interface is pretty clean.
Hostile personal computing is here to stay. Dark patterns are prerequisite for commercial OS nowadays. Outside the usual "work" scenario, there is no sane tech person who is not aware of this and is not using Linux. The idea that Macs are somehow better is obvious when installing Little Snitch. These are the data hoarders for the common people. My kid will know what is a terminal before it touches iPad or iPhone.
It doesn't need updates because they don't access the internet, good luck virus writers when it gets nuked from outside the VM every time it reboots!
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Interesting, and what should people do if they are unable to understand that others experiences can and do differ from their own? As of an hour ago, plugging a trrs headset into the jack on my laptop breaks audio until I go kick the daemon. Linux is a pain in the neck.
Format your distribution. You probably messed some config file up, while trying to fix something. They work completely fine. I use them all the time and have been using them for about a decade.
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Interesting, and what should people do if they are unable to understand that others experiences can and do differ from their own? As of an hour ago, plugging a trrs headset into the jack on my laptop breaks audio until I go kick the daemon. Linux is a pain in the neck.
Format your distribution. You probably messed some config file up, while trying to fix something. They work completely fine. I use them all the time and have been using them for about a decade.
The bug to which I refer has been open for over a year and is well replicated on my hardware and distro. I would fix it myself but I can’t be bothered so I use Bluetooth (in one of the rare cases were there’s an audio problem on Linux and the solution is Bluetooth).
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> but no matter how much I love it, Linux is janky. To be honest though, so is Windows (in certain aspects). I believe that someone who works with Linux every day, gets used to certain stuff being janky and no longer notices it - just like someon working with Windows every day gets used to the jank found there, and no longer notices it. It's only when you are used to one system and switch over to the other, that you…
Check out chocolatey. It's the package manager that Windows lacks.
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GNU/Linux phones already exist, see Librem 5 and Pinephone.
I have one and the hardware is so slow and the software ecosystem is still so incomplete... I understand still holding out for a 'good' Linux phone despite those things.
I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad from Costco for about $500. The last time I bought a computer preloaded with Windows was about a decade ago. My experience so far: I turn it on, there's a license agreement. Actually, there's two. One is from Microsoft, and it's rather long but I guess it's about par for the course. Then there's the Lenovo license agreement, which is actually a bunch of other license agreements concaten…
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> despite the extra up front cost, apple stuff is a better value What extra up front cost? The Macbook Air costs $799 at BestBuy. Do you mean to say a similar quality Windows machine costs less? Only Samsung makes computers that are comparable to the Macbook. This Samsung [2] arguably has a better screen but costs $1450. (There are cheaper Samsungs but they don't have 200% screen resolution.) [1] https://www.bestbuy.…
Yeah the latest M1/M2 Macbooks have made them a nobrainer. I can’t find any laptops in my country with the same screen resolution, brightness, weight, and trackpad combo as a base Macbook for a cheaper price. My wife’s M1 Macbook Air feels faster than any laptop I’ve ever used, and outside of 3D rendering, even faster than my Ryzen 5900x desktop.