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Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare

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Re: Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare

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get a Mac.

I would have said the same 5 years ago but now macOS is quite bad itself. If you follow their lead (click blue) you'll end up setting up an iCloud account, syncing your life to them, enabling Apple Intelligence, telemetry, and a load of other shit. Then you get to the desktop and your dock has 30 icons in it already, some of which require subscription, and it's too full to understand what each one is. And don't get m…

People say that but it's not really hard to turn things off.

Re: Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare

#12
A nice tip: make sure to install the LTSC version of Windows 10, which is the most perfect setup you'll ever have (well, other than installing Linux)

No Cortana, no Copilot, no Windows Apps. Just pure unadulterated Windows, with extended support until 2032 (if you install the IOT version)

Re: Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have said the same 5 years ago but now macOS is quite bad itself. If you follow their lead (click blue) you'll end up setting up an iCloud account, syncing your life to them, enabling Apple Intelligence, telemetry, and a load of other shit. Then you get to the desktop and your dock has 30 icons in it already, some of which require subscription, and it's too full to understand what each one is. And don't get m…

People say that but it's not really hard to turn things off.

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Re: Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have said the same 5 years ago but now macOS is quite bad itself. If you follow their lead (click blue) you'll end up setting up an iCloud account, syncing your life to them, enabling Apple Intelligence, telemetry, and a load of other shit. Then you get to the desktop and your dock has 30 icons in it already, some of which require subscription, and it's too full to understand what each one is. And don't get m…

People say that but it's not really hard to turn things off.

You hear people saying it's a problem but you discount what they say because you know better yourself?

I'm perfectly capable of setting up macOS to my liking, but I think it's important to consider all users. The abuse of default settings is quite rampant.

Re: Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare

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A nice tip: make sure to install the LTSC version of Windows 10, which is the most perfect setup you'll ever have (well, other than installing Linux) No Cortana, no Copilot, no Windows Apps. Just pure unadulterated Windows, with extended support until 2032 (if you install the IOT version)

Can definitely recommend the iOT version, use Chris Titus tool to setup Winget and other missing bits and it's as good of an experience as you can have on windows, actually uses less resources at idle than an Ubuntu gnome install

Re: Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have said the same 5 years ago but now macOS is quite bad itself. If you follow their lead (click blue) you'll end up setting up an iCloud account, syncing your life to them, enabling Apple Intelligence, telemetry, and a load of other shit. Then you get to the desktop and your dock has 30 icons in it already, some of which require subscription, and it's too full to understand what each one is. And don't get m…

People say that but it's not really hard to turn things off.

It's not really hard to turn things off on Windows either.

Re: Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People say that but it's not really hard to turn things off.

You hear people saying it's a problem but you discount what they say because you know better yourself? I'm perfectly capable of setting up macOS to my liking, but I think it's important to consider all users. The abuse of default settings is quite rampant.

I say that because I've been using macOS for the last decade and haven't found clicking the occasional 'no' on would you like to pay for iCloud much of a burden.

Also my 89 yr old mum has switched to mac and not had that particular issue. Some other issues like MS Outlook not importing her 40GB email file which had built up over a couple of decades on Windows, but not ads etc.

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