Seriously though, in W11 it’s super easy to disable this shit.
Start Menu:
Personalization > Start > “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.” (OFF)Lock Screen:
Personalization > Lock Screen > Change from “Weather ‘and more’” to “None”.Search:
Settings > Search > Permissions & History > Turn it ALL off. Cloud, Work/School, etc.It seems the report of my demise has been greatly exaggerated, would you like to see an ad?
I love this image, but you know that Clippy would be holding the gun sideways, gangster style.
Honestly I prefer this to Microsoft Edge stealing (importing) all my chrome passwords and bookmarks without my consent. Something they do from time to time.
Both? Both. And how was that screen transcriber called? I don’t know, but let’s try that one again. (I wish it was “/s”)
Windows Recall, the screengrabber they were about to release with an unencrypted database as an opt-out feature.
I was planning on reinstalling windows on my desktop (apparently removing a basically blank hard drive prevents windows from booting) until I saw this. Now I have two arch machines lol
Install Windows > English UK > None of the bullshit
Install GNU/Linux > None of the bullshit
I also run Linux and let me tell you, you’re still dealing with a ton of bullshit. I never had to spend tens of hours to try and find the version of Windows on which I am able to get my hardware running properly only to have to trust some stranger telling me to install some home made driver to finally find the last piece of my puzzle.
Yes, Linux is not perfect, but it has a much stronger community than windows which helps, and it’s improving and growing every day. You won’t face any corporate bullshit(unless you use Ubuntu), but you might have issues with hardware support, etc. There is no perfect operating system unfortunately.
Well, that’s totally another type of bs… but having to pick between MS bs and my own bs for not properly picking my hardware i prefer to stay on linux.
“not properly picking my hardware”
So… Perfectly average AMD hardware (5600x, 6650xt) that works correctly with Mint but not with Bazzite is a me not choosing the right hardware problem?
My wifi usb adapter supposedly being supported but not working for some reason is a me not choosing the right hardware problem?
I love how people keep claiming this whilst in reality most of the time, most of the hardware is so supported out of the box that you literally forget that something like a driver is even needed. Linux supports a metric frack tonne of hardware right out of the box, contrary to windows.
That goes without saying that installing most distros of Linux takes a good 20 minutes where as my last windows 11 install tool 7 hours split over various days (ok the exact same computer) to figure out all the issues and get it to work properly
“people keep claiming this but it’s not true!”
Fucking hell buddy, I’m running Mint 22, that was released in late July, that means I’m talking about my own experience from less than a month ago. Bazzite was shitting the bed for my GPU with no one having experienced the same thing (display signal cutting off whenever there was a load on the GPU) and on Mint my wifi usb adapter that is supposed to work out of the box as of kernel 6.2 (from February… Last year!) would drop connection after 5 minutes if it worked at all after waking from suspend.
In the end I had to install a homebrewed driver and block the one used by default. You know when I don’t have to do any of that? When I install Windows. You know how you create safety issues? By getting people used to installing random stuff from the internet to get their computer working.
If it took you 7h to install Windows then honestly you were doing something wrong.
What does that do?
Windows treats you as being protected by European norms so you don’t have to experience all the bullshit… I’ve never seen any of the ads people keep talking about, I don’t live in Europe, I just tell Windows to use English UK as Windows’ language and then set my regional stuff based on what I actually want.
Have you heard of Linux?
It’s been at least an hour! Tell me about it!
Oh yeah I love his tech tips!
You’re thinking of Linus Torvalds, a popular Youtuber who gives tech advice.
That’s some STD right?
It’s a detergent brand:
It’s also great for cleaning windows!
Touché
I wish it would start spreading like one. Would improve things for many people.
Yeah, basically. Except for the S part.
Serially
I read the article. Deceptive headline.
I dont see start menu ads? I see the account manager button will take you to your m365 account instead of your local account settings. This is what’s inside the article, i dont know where they got the title from.
thats an ad for their cloud services
Sort of, but that has nothing to do with Windows 11.
yes. thats why it doesnt belong on windows.
It’s just them moving their accounts to be cloud accounts instead of local accounts.
That sucks, but they’ve been pushing for that since Windows 7 I think?
I think that started on Win8 and fully implemented on Win10. I don’t remember Win7 have this BS. At least not obvious that makes me remember if they have.
Yeah, I haven’t used Windows for like 15 years, so I don’t remember exactly when they started pushing for cloud accounts. But it’s not new with Windows 11, it’s been their focus for at least 10 years now.
This sucks. I’m forced to use it for work…
Work is one thing. I’m fine with it for work. Work is my company’s data, not mine.
At home tho? Fuck that shit.
Pop!_os for life at home.
Same here, but with macOS instead of Windows at work, and openSUSE instead of Pop!_OS at home.
My work can use what they like, but I’ll use Linux at home.
Just in case you thought they forgot to hate you even more for still refusing to update to Windows 11.
