This popped up on my work laptop yesterday. Very annoying.

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    I have to have adobe installed on my work computer and fuck it’s intrusive everythingness. Fuck em.

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    The pop-ups on my desktop are the driving force behind me finally looking into Linux.

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      Between that, the installation of programs like HP smart, copilot, and Dev Home without my consent. OneDrive being trash. Start menu being slow ever since they deployed copilot even with it shut off. All the tricks to get you to run Edge. The list just keeps growing.

      The notifications to get you to change notification settings on a program like Microsoft to-do not being run in a while just take the cake. I’ll run my apps if and when I want to. STFU M$. I pay you for an operating system to run my computer. Not to fight with it constantly.

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        Linux is easier than windows now. Not because Linux got easier (it did, though not enough), but because windows is just getting so much worse so fucking fast.

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          That’s hilariously so true. Have been completely comfortable using Linux as a primary OS, in my case, I decided, “well Windows 10 was pretty johnny on the spot, so maybe I’ll use Windows 11 for a spell.” 10 was mostly usable, then 11 was “hey we have this always-update model of 10 in place, let’s make 11 all about constant dark pattern pushes?” May literally be the last time I use or ever recommend the platform in any capacity.

          Not even talking about how W11 can’t successfully sleep or hibernate on most computers I’ve seen it on. I was in a computer shop helping someone pick out a laptop a while back, local place. They configured all the PC laptops to never sleep because Windows 11 sleep is so buggy. How is it 2024 and Windows is worse at sleep than it was in 2001?

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    There’s a reason I have my windows configured for do not disturb/focus mode, I can’t say I’ve seen a notification come through that was actually relevant for me. The vast majority of what I’ve seen come through notifications are app spam, and I ain’t got time for that

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      Agreed. Seems the notification tray in Windows is just a catch-all for spam (mostly from MS themselves)

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        Nah, browsers are so much worse, but that’s because most users blindly accept notifications from any sketch website then call and cry to IT because they “got a virus”.

        I don’t miss my days supporting end users…

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          We configured an allowlist of domains allowed to send notifications through our GPOs, everything else is blocked to the end-users. It reduced the amount of calls related to “virus alert” for sure.

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          First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions

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      I absolutely hate when Windows will give you a different notification for each email that comes in, then an additional one to tell you “mail has new messages.” Get out of my fucking way!

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        As far as I can tell outlook will call out the title of the first 3 emails in a minute, then if further emails arrive you get the general message.

        Its really just a ‘we are rate limiting our notifications, check your inbox’ message.

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    get sumatrapdf.

    havent been on windows in a while, but im assuming its still the great lightweight viewer it used to be.

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      It is. I have trouble making it the default reader. Stuff still opens in Edge. Not sure what the deal is.

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        Had that issue too, search in Start for “Default Apps”, then scroll to the bottom and click “Choose default application by file type”. Then scroll to .pdf and choose Sumatra. The settings window may crash for some reason, but for me the file association did seem to stick after that.

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          I haven’t had a crash happen on that screen but it takes its fucking time loading a non-paginated list of thousands of elements. And there’s no search bar IIRC. MS made this process as painful as possible and I’m convinced that that’s exactly the way they want it.

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          I’ll give it a shot and report back. I remember doing it through “Open with … Always” but maybe it’s different.

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    I don’t touch Adobe software. Not only due to the abusive subscription, but even the pirated versions will install Creative Cloud and a thousand supporting applications that permanently modify your Windows shell, explorer, scheduled tasks and many more system features.

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      Dude I did it on my previous pc and it was super aids to fully remove it. Never again, I’m sticking with Foss as much as possible now. Photopea is great as a photoshop alternative for anyone who isn’t a professional.

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          Last time I used gimp was like 6 years ago so take my opinion with a grain of salt but I do feel Photopea is easier to use.

          I have no idea which one is more powerful but for the average lowly user like myself Photopea has had all I need and then some. It’s also a browser only application which for me is a boon but I can see some people preferring a download instead. I would recommend going on the site and messing around a bit to get a feel, it’s free to use.

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    My daughter needs Windows on her notebook for school. The OneDrive popups that you can never turn off, only silence for a month, on Windows 10 are enough to piss me off on her behalf.

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      Every time I use windows, I run this debloater script which remove all unneccessary programs that you choose to delete. It even has options to remove the PDF defaulting to edge (mentioned because it kind of related to this post).

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        Every time I use windows, I run this debloater script

        Ironic having to use an open source script to make a closed source OS behave itself.

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          Irony (noun)

          3: Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

          How is that ironic? It seems like exactly what I would expect: open source software prioritizing human wellbeing instead of corporate profits.

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            How is that ironic?

            The irony is having to use one kind of licensed tool on another diametrically opposed type of licensed tool.

            Its not how the tool is used (as you described), but the licensing of the tool, versus the licensing of the tool its being used on.

            That seems self-evident, considering I went out of my way to express the licensing in my original comment. But, if you have a better word for me to use than ironic, please let me know.

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              I guess if you think it’s ironic then you do you. I’ve been using OSS software to make proprietary OSes not suck for over 2 decades, and that’s exactly one of the things I expect it to do.

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                I guess if you think it’s ironic then you do you.

                You honestly see no irony, license-wise, in using an open source product to repair/modify a closed source product?

                At all?

                I’ve been using OSS software to make proprietary OSes not suck for almost 3 decades, and that’s exactly one of the things I expect it to do.

                No one is disputing that. That’s not the point being made.

                But, if you have a better word for me to use than ironic, please let me know.

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                  I don’t. People use non-proprietary tools to repair proprietary things all the time. Screwdrivers and hammers and soldering irons all are open tools that are used to build and maintain proprietary physical objects. I can’t see any irony in it because I can’t see it any other way. Imagine that GM built cars using only tools that were hidden behind a trade secret, and mechanics and end users were forced to use those same tools. Seems far fetched, doesn’t it? It does to me at any rate.

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    I can hardly remember the last time any notification was not some kind of spam or self-notification.

    I turn 99.95% of notifications off on any platform. The worst offenders are the apps that will show me a permanent in-app notification that I have turned off notification permissions… especially those that do so blocking the regular UI of the app to tell me this. Even some apps I’ve paid for do this. I condemn those to the deepest pits of app-hell.

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    Just throwing out there that PDF X-Change Editor and WondersShare PDFelement are both exceptional PDF editors. PDF X-Change Editor also has Windows ARM64 builds so you can run them on ARM based PCs. Although the best thing is to try and escape from Windows entirely anymore. Edit: Also, I second other recommends for Sumatra PDF for viewing. It has always been a favorite.

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    Uninstall and use a different PDF reader. I’m partial to sumatra PDF.

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    Win11 is full of these kinds of ads, especially for OneDrive and Office