Let's face it. These stuffs are not only useless shit: these are deal breakers.
having been successively into Linux and macOS these last 7 years, I find the amount of junks produced by Windows staggering.
Useless Windows 10 Features
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#222I honestly think that the new tab/news/spam page in IE/Edge is (and has been, forever) the single biggest factor driving people to Chrome and Firefox. Every time you open it you’re greeted with all this complete junk, making the whole experience stuttering and slowing down your flow. I dread having to open IE on systems with no alternative just because it’s always so bad. Edge might actually be pretty good, but I wil…
I have always wondered how many big syndicates and governments actually push their malware via the msn homepage. (Given that 99% of sysadmins will at some point be forced via msn, on the malware-portal that is Internet Explorer, to install a proper browser). I really think, even if this isn't happening at scale, that this would be a great way to pwn even some of the biggest firms.
Interesting point. It would be safer to launch IE with "iexplore about:blank" from the run dialog.
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#223Wait, what? There are ads in the OS? That's insane.
There are two categories:
1. Suggestions to use other paid microsoft products like onedrive and office 365. Apple does something similar with icloud, apple music, but microsoft is more annoying about it because they'll pop up those suggestions all over the place whereas apple will typically put this in more logical places. Overall this makes sense though, and sometimes I've used this to quickly get to one of these services (because I use all of them anyway).
2. Promoted apps from the windows store that they push in the start menu. I find this quite annoying, and I'm not aware of another OS that does it. I'm also doubtful it actually makes them that much money. It probably harms their bottom line more than it helps, which is why nobody else is doing it.
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#224I would also add lock screen which is shown before login screen. It makes sense on mobile devices but I never understood the use for it on my desktop and laptop. Especially when my laptop and desktop does not have any bio authentication.
Oh, that's what that is supposed to be! The same thing is in CentOS. You literally click and drag the mouse upward to get the login screen. New users often think the computer is broken.
Any default GNOME environment does this.
> You literally click and drag the mouse upward to get the login screen.
Yeah, you can, but hitting a space bar before typing in your password is so much easier. I think any "normal" key (as in letters, numbers, space) would work, but I'm not near a system to check.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Manjaro comes OOTB with MS Office 365, and it's super easy to install, easier than Ubuntu if you're doing Nvidia drivers. I personally can't comment on how well their Office works as I avoid anything Microsoft makes, but it's an option.
> Manjaro comes OOTB with MS Office 365 Huh?
They include wrapper apps for office online. You can just use the web apps in any browser on any OS though.
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#226I've installed Win10 on dozens of machines and I've never seen ads on the lock screen, in the taskbar, and in notifications like the article talks about. Maybe because I always say "no" to all those creepy tracking/advertising ID type options on the initial config screen and I always say no to Cortana at the same time. What I heard (and it seems reasonable) is that MS included games like Solitaire and Minesweeper in…
I suspect it is regional. Are you in America?
Australia. Which you think would be a big enough market to make toggling a setting worthwhile
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds more like your pc has performance issues. I have no short freezes when using chrome on windows.
I am using a decent gaming rig, so I don’t think it is the performance issue. I think it might be related to the touchpad. Are you using mouse for scrolling?
You might be running into Tab Discarding under memory constraints, the pause is when the tab gets restored. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discar...
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've tended to always chose the defaults and Yes to everything :) and have never seen any kind of Ads either. I don't have the people tab either! (although it appears like something i would have instantly flicked off without thinking) I wonder if Microsoft engages in some kind of personification of OS settings...
I suspect most of the advertisers are going for big markets, if you live in a small non English speaking country then they might not have signed any advertisers on.
Does Australia qualify as a small non English speaking country? Because that's where I am
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#229> Windows 10 has more built-in advertisements than Google’s Android and Chrome OS do. It's still hard to believe that after paying a few hundreds of dollars for a new OS you will be treated with advertisements, as if it were freeware.. I'll never buy that shit.
> It's still hard to believe that after paying a few hundreds of dollars for a new OS I haven't checked, but are the ads in the enterprise versions? Otherwise, I'd guess that the vast majority of home consumers have an OEM key that came with their laptop or PC (or upgraded from Win7), and they didn't pay hundreds of dollars for. While the price of Win10 is included in some way in the price of the device, it wouldn't…
As a freelancer, I'm not some home consumer, but someone with a business laptop. A business laptop I need to take to meetings. I need to show my business partners what is on my screen. This is not the time for some bloody Candy Crush ad popping up. And this is not the time to realise that last night's forced update borked your presentation.
As a freelancer, however, I cannot get the enterprise version of Windows 10 unless I buy at least n instances of it. I'd rather use that money to buy a real business laptop like a Mac Book Pro. No ads. No work ruining updates. Professionally maintainable without having a Windows Server sitting next to it. Backups that work. Real UNIX underneath.
I also was very happy with a Thinkpad plus Ubuntu LTS. Professionally maintainable, UNIX like underneath, smooth updates. I set up backups myself, but at least I had full control over it.
I had to settle on the Mac because of the availability of MS Office. I got tired of having to run that using a VM inside which I, yet again, had to maintain a Windows.
I tried Windows 10 for a while. At first I was pleasantly surprised, but then all the problems piled up. Fighting shitty drivers just to get sound working properly, constant updates, ads popping up again and again in the start menu and even on the lock screen, fighting to get at least a semblance of a usable command line.
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#230Standart folders, does anybody really use them? I upgradet one Notebook at home to from Win7 to Win10. Besides of other things I couldn't believe the added Candy Crash in my Start Menu. In a home edition maybe .. but on Win Pro, serious? I played back on the Win7 image pretty quick. I'm anyway mostly Linux, but I don't think I'll ever move any machine to Win10.
> I couldn't believe the added Candy Crash in my Start Menu. In a home edition maybe .. but on Win Pro, serious? Are you surprised? The file search on Windows XP Professional used an animated cartoon dog. This is just what Microsoft does. As Steve Jobs once said, "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste."
At least the dog was cute and not an advertising vehicle.