• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s good that these tools exist, but it’s so frustrating that it’s a constant cat and mouse game of Microsoft trying to make their products as cumbersome and shit as possible and the community trying to salvage Windows to the best of their ability.

    At what point do OEMs just say actually nah, I’m tired of you making our laptops frustrating to use?

    At what point do they say fuck it I’m going the Valve route and moving away from a company that wants to undermine my products and my brand?

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      it’s a constant cat and mouse game

      It’s not just Microsoft. Never heard of always on DRM? Or government making it difficult for people to receive assistance (disability or homeless)?

    • Andy Reid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      At what point do OEMs just say actually nah, I’m tired of you making our laptops frustrating to use?

      LTT put out an (surprisingly insightful) video about ChromeOS and how it’s kind of secretly spreading Linux. I don’t think its crazy to say that in 5-10 years ChromeOS or similar will be the default and Windows will be a premium add on or something.

    • littleblue✨@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      To be fair, Window$ has been bloat since the very day M$ stole it from its Unix roots, and Linux is everything that the OS could’ve been were it not run by money-grubbin’ cringelords.

  • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Can you imagine installing Windows and having to install 10 seperate programs just to fix all the issues with it?

  • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    For me it is so weird, that you have to use extra tools to disable telemetry and unwanted features in windows systems. Why is windows not giving me a central option to decide on those things? Is it maybe because they do not want me to decide for myself and therefore splitting the places where I need to disable all that unwanted stuff as opaque as possible? Can they be more obvious that they do not value your opinion on how you want your OS to behave?

    Quit Windows. It is a dead end and get worst with every release.

    If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

  • blackstampede@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I used to have a power shell script that a coworker gave me that would uninstall a huge number of services and apps on windows, change a bunch of config settings etc.

    I’ve always wished there were a way to roll out a stripped windows release as an open source project without getting sued.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    just use linux lmao

    did i type this right? are you going to upvote my comment