Right now my computer isn’t supported by Windows 11 so I have some time. But seeing this crap coming eventually in my future, I started dual booting Linux Mint to see if I could live with it. Turns out I like it better than windows. I haven’t booted my window partition in weeks. When I finally upgrade my computer it will probably be running solely on Linux now and maybe have Windows 7 running in a virtual box for the very few programs I still need it for.
None of this would have happened had Microsoft not pushed their corporate enshitification past my threshold. Thanks Microsoft.
Linux Mint is the shit if you want a to have just a smooth seamless transition from Windows or a Linux OS that just works.
I did the same a year ago and then I quite quickly switched over completely to Linux mint.
The closest I’ve been to Windows since I’ve installed Linux is putting its partition in the NixOS (gen 19) filesystem list.
Worked on me. I left Win10 behind for linux a couple months ago. I installed Win11 in dual boot with an eval license but I just don’t use it anymore. I’ll probably just nuke it when the eval expires.
Didn’t the start menus have ads for several years now?
Windows 10 definitely has but they don’t come back once you delete them, which is garbage but less garbage
wasn’t the candy crush one notorious for being always reinstalled with every minor update?
Asking bc I haven’t used windows since 10 came out (using w10 at work, but it’s the enterprise version)
That’s exactly the one I was thinking of
No. I’ve never seen an ad.
You can easily turn these off in lots than a minute according to a quick Google search.
Which is it then? You never seen them or you turned them off?
Yes, and it has one toggle to disable them all
And how many windows updates reset the setting??
How can I learn this power?
Do people seriously install the optional updates?
Don’t worry, the next “mandatory” cumulative update will take care of that, even if you aren’t installing it yourself.
Peter?Petah?
To get someone to explain the joke, you have to spell it “Petah”.
Ah my bad, thanks
So… Peter is Australian??
It’s funny because the modern consumer doesn’t even care, everything is ad ridden these days, they won’t even notice. But yeah, fuck that noise. I slipstream windows for a reason (the reason is I have to use windows to support my IT customers 🥲)
yooo, I haven’t used Win in a whileeee. did they move the start menu to the center of the panel?
Yup. Imo made the entire ui so much worse all in an effort to blur the line between macos and Windows.
Windows 10 already required 3rd party software for me to use it. Windows 11 was a complete no-go for me from the moment I saw it. I’m so glad my OS drive died last year, it was the push I needed to go Linux only.
GTFO here! That is sooooo much more inconvenient since it will block the view of anything you have open on that screen, and it just feels completely odd. wowwww.
You can move it back to the left, but I agree that MS seem to be trying to make it look like iOS for some reason
Windows 11 made it so you can’t move the taskbar to the side anymore either.
I can’t believe this is still not possible to do. I could create an endless amount of panels and move them anywhere I want in Linux 20 years ago, but a corporation with a three trillion dollars market cap can’t do that in 2024??
They stopped caring about the user experienc when they wrote QDOS
I’ve been using startallback since I got 11, I’m holding on but I should probably move over to something else soon
Come to the dark side, we have cute penguins.
This is one of my top two reasons for not using Windows. Wth can I not put the panel where ever the hell I want?? So freaking frustrating how they control what you can do just in terms of user preferences. Or like, why can’t I click on whatever window I want regardless of a prompt being open. “Oh you took a screen shot and want to save it, but you need to look at the site to remember the name? lol, fu.” Unbearable.
Fyi, the other top reason is that they shove a bunch of garbage in that I don’t want, like that Cortana bs they did a few years back. No thank you.
I always wanted to use Linux, so it wasn’t really anything that Windows did that drove me away, it was more I could finally play the games I wanted to when Windows 11 came out and needing to change my bios settings to upgrade was enough of a nudge for me to say fuck it.
by default yes, this can be changed back though
I think your keyboard might be brokennnnnnn
awwwww beansssssss :(((
They have been there for a long time
There is a setting to disabled them.
The problem with these “settings” is that Windows updates don’t respect them. They frequently get reset or superseded by new updates. This happened constantly if you tried to disable Cortana in Windows 10 - even if you changed the registry settings manually, they would get overwritten during updates. I don’t trust Microsoft to respect user choice, they have a demonstrated track record of ignoring it.
In my opinion, when using a paid product, an expensive paid product, ads should not be opt out, if even present.
Besides everything else, it makes Windows even less comfortable to use.
For now, yes. You actually believe that will continue to be that way in 12 - 18 months?
