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How about all the ways windows goes out of its way to hide the home folder, and then is now generating multiple places it calls “Documents”, “Pictures”, etc so you’re never really sure where anything is?
You can quickly access your user folder by going to the address bar and starting to type your user’s display name.
It’s hard to believe how despite all the telemetry, Microsoft still manages to be so out of touch with their users’ actual needs. It’s almost like there’s a hidden agenda somewhere.
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> Edge lets you turn that off - on the New Tab page, click on the cog symbol (Customize) and you can choose from New Tab page display settings: Top Sites & My Feed, Top Sites, or Blank Page. I shouldn't have to turn off whatever spam they build into a paid for product. It should also be in the browser settings, not a confusingly placed and easy to miss hieroglyph. For me I don't even get those options, it's just a to…
Unfortunately Microsoft are the ones who decided to make Windows 10 a free upgrade for Windows 7/8 users, so we all bear the awfulness of them needing to sell sponsored spots in the OS to compensate for that loss of revenue. At least if the OS basically makes money on its own on an ongoing basis, we won’t need to ever pay for Windows updates again? Still, ugh. edit: I’m agreeing with you guys here. I’d spend more on…
I disabled the allow Microsoft to send application history to their servers. They still do it. They just ignore the fact I have disabled it explicitly. It should be reason for me to be able to sue but I don't know where to start.
> They all have one thing in common: No one wanted them. Who wants a Windows PC that can’t run standard Windows applications? People who want a tablet experience. Surface Go is tablet first, it can be used as a laptop substitute, but only a substitute. I can imagine there are many people who would be satisfied with a Windows S only device, using only the Microsoft Store apps.
Apparently the Android versions of Office apps are nicer than the Windows Phone ones, which is kind of baffling.
> They all have one thing in common: No one wanted them. Who wants a Windows PC that can’t run standard Windows applications? People who want a tablet experience. Surface Go is tablet first, it can be used as a laptop substitute, but only a substitute. I can imagine there are many people who would be satisfied with a Windows S only device, using only the Microsoft Store apps.
Most of these are similar manifestations of the same root evil (not specific to Microsoft): Users don’t want Feature X but Company wants users to want Feature X. They release Feature X to the world. It’s a failure—nobody uses it. The PM or developers who invested in that feature need to justify the investment. So they make Feature X enabled by default. Users disable it. So they remove the disable option. Users ignore…
I think the solution is to have competition but everyone has given up on that because they like compatibility or something.
Competition can only work for things that are componentised and un-bundled. Since both profitability and security work against this, we end up with competing monoliths where you have to take the entire bundle of features and anti-features.
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> He’s happy and content. Just wants solitaire. Would he not be happier without the ads, then?
Sure, but he doesn't want to pay and doesn't want some other app. So just accepts it.
I mean, if I gave you a script that would patch up Solitaire executable to remove any and all ads and telemetry with a single click, wouldn't your dad want it if you offered?
"All the Ads. So, So Many Ads" Seems odd to see complaints of many Ads in an OS--analogous to buying a car and having advertisements show up in the instrument cluster when stopped or not being able to exit the vehicle until watching an Ad. Haven't used Windows in recent memory (probably since these Ads appeared or I just didn't notice them). Is it as bad as the article describes?
At work, I have been using Windows 10 Pro for a couple of months now after sticking with Windows 7 for as long as I could. I cannot remember seeing any ads so far.
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Still Ubuntu, honestly. If you want something like Ubuntu with more continuous updates, there's Manjaro.
I am sort of getting used to pacman with msys2. Do Arch or Manjaro package registries (are they the same thing?) have good availability in general? What I mean is, in Arch or Manjaro, how often are there already packages available for things that people normally want to do, versus needing to compile something manually or work around broken dependencies?