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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just bought a new Windows laptop and it was LOADED with bloatware. Some apps could be deleted simply, some however are baked in. Discovered BloatyNosyApp and the partner app Junk Ctrl for W11 on GitHub https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy

This seems to have done the trick quickly and surprisingly easily compared to DIY powershell activity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What’s annoying to me isn’t even a Microsoft product. Norton sends pop up’s and reminders every day by default after you purchase it and it drives me crazy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is one of the best tools I've used, works really well!

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I just reinstalled Windows after not having a computer for a long time. I'm glad I just happened across this beforehand because it was the best.

Everyone should use this to some extent, even just to disable tracking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's awesome right?? Really impressed with the tool!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ITT: folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever, but are perfectly willing to jump through endless hoops to work around some of Windows' deliberate hostility.

The Stockholm syndrome is real.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever

At one point this was true, but that was many years ago.

Unfortunately, that reputation has kind of stuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The barriers are still too steep. My Ubuntu machine updated it's kernel and then refused to boot after that. I had to look up how to manually lock the old working kernel.

Windows has never completely broken itself on an update for me.

If that happened to my parents they'd be angrily driving to the shop to get another cheap windows laptop.