The Windows 11 Trash Party
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The Windows 11 Trash Party
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Re: The Windows 11 Trash Party
#2This is mostly blogspam for this: https://thomasbandt.com/the-day-windows-died
Which has already been posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35415758
Re: The Windows 11 Trash Party
#3This is mostly blogspam for this: https://thomasbandt.com/the-day-windows-died Which has already been posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35415758
This one adds another example of the distracting invasive mess that article doesn't have.
Re: The Windows 11 Trash Party
#4If you've never used an older Windows, here is a Win 2000 in the browser:
https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...
(The Qemu.js post on the front page today lead me there via a readme link to jslinux.)
Re: The Windows 11 Trash Party
#5Windows is definitely adware now.
Microsoft saw how much the average user would install, and thought "we can do that too"; of course, by being "official", their own adware is much harder to remove.
Windows can show the weather in the bottom left of the task bar, which is nice
I've never wanted that feature nor found it appealing. I can just look outside if I want to know the weather where I am, or visit a site otherwise.
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#6> there is no way to turn this news feed off
There are several layers to "turning it off". You can use Personalization -> Taskbar to turn off the "Widgets" icon which takes care of the immediate problem.
But widgets.exe will continue running in the background, and the only way I found to get rid of that is winget uninstall "Windows Web Experience Pack"
Re: The Windows 11 Trash Party
#7Windows is definitely adware now. Microsoft saw how much the average user would install, and thought "we can do that too"; of course, by being "official", their own adware is much harder to remove. Windows can show the weather in the bottom left of the task bar, which is nice I've never wanted that feature nor found it appealing. I can just look outside if I want to know the weather where I am, or visit a site otherw…
Yeah but what percentage of users wanted that feature? Microsoft probably knows.
Re: The Windows 11 Trash Party
#8Windows is definitely adware now. Microsoft saw how much the average user would install, and thought "we can do that too"; of course, by being "official", their own adware is much harder to remove. Windows can show the weather in the bottom left of the task bar, which is nice I've never wanted that feature nor found it appealing. I can just look outside if I want to know the weather where I am, or visit a site otherw…
> Windows is definitely adware now.
It's sad, isn't it? In many a Hacker News thread about the Year of the Linux Desktop, someone will inevitably deadpan how there's just no money to be made; there's no business model.
It seems to me that the same is true for Apple and Microsoft. There's "no" money in the desktop itself, only as a value-add, via platform effects or via dark pattern monetization like this.
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#9One thing i find particularly obnoxious about windows is how they promote their edge browser. It would be one thing if it is well integrated into the rest of the operating system like ie. But in reality its pretty much indistinguishable from Chrome which, incidentally, is the only thing i've ever downloaded on Edge.
Re: The Windows 11 Trash Party
#10Windows is definitely adware now. Microsoft saw how much the average user would install, and thought "we can do that too"; of course, by being "official", their own adware is much harder to remove. Windows can show the weather in the bottom left of the task bar, which is nice I've never wanted that feature nor found it appealing. I can just look outside if I want to know the weather where I am, or visit a site otherw…
Yeah but what percentage of users wanted that feature? Microsoft probably knows.
Well it is actually a rather useful feature even if op doesn't like it.