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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The people who use tools like this are in the minority. The majority (probably the vast majority) of people use Windows as it is out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The number for people I have seen with search box still enabled in taskbar tells me that's true.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Everyone. Everywhere.

It blows my mind, but then I realise that we here on Lemmy are the 1% of IT users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah right‽ Why do people keep the full search box enabled? It takes up so much space. I usually switch to the search button.

I even see quite a lot of people in IT (not talking about tech or devs) that keep it enabled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I think it's one of those things that just becomes mentally invisible after a while. Like Microsoft slowly just drops in a new bar here, a stock ticker there, and there's a point where a majority of folks are like "...Was that always there?" and don't bother hunting for a way to turn it off like we do lol.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, I know.

But it's not like these people actually love ads all over the place, or bing results in start menus, or popups asking them to pwetty pwease use OneDrive, or can you pwetty pwetty pwease use Edge instead of Chrome, they just either:

  • don't know they can get rid of that stuff

  • don't trust tools and are afraid they'll break something or the tools will contain a virus

  • don't care enough to research this crap

  • view using their PC as a chore anyway, and so power through the annoyances

I don't own a Mac, and don't intend to, but of the biggest things people like about them is that there are far fewer of these types of annoyances.

It's not just extreme power users that can be irked by all this crap - they're just the ones who do things about it and chat on forums about it. A normal person just sighs and thinks ugh I'd rather just do this on my phone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

View using their PC as a chore anyway, and so power through the annoyances

Damn, good one.