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For my "convenience" and because in this way they can show ads and clickbait

Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???

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[–] [email protected] 230 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Classic microsoft move.

Linux has gotten great over the years and keeps improving while windows gets worse and worse every day. This has been going on for many years now.

I switched already and suggest you give it a shot as well. It's honestly much easier than windows if you know the basics and understand how things are done there.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (45 children)
[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty damn good these days.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fantastic - made the jump a month ago. I don't play FPS games. Those are the ones that have trouble running on Linux due to anti-cheast software, but the vast majority of my 600 steam games run with no issues it all - at sometimes running even better than on windows.

For example division 2 was sluggish on win11 on my Lenovo y540 (integrated GeForce whatever gaming laptop card) with 16gig of ram, now that I swapped over to Pop!_os - it doesn't lag at all.

I mostly play single player games, but guild wars 2 2 and ff14 work great too if you are an MMO fan.

PoE works great if you want an ARPG to play.

Make the move and own your PC again.

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???****

because you dont own your pc. microfrost does

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (12 children)

More and more I am considering taking a vacation with the specific goal of migrating to Linux. I've got decades old workflows linked to certain programs and tools that I know for sure only exist in Windows, so I'll likely have to still run it in a VM for those, but my system setup is just kinda the place I call home the most, yet my patience for all this nonsense is rapidly declining.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Do it, my friend. I took the leap ~5 years ago and have not once regretted it. You're right, you have Wine and Windows VMs available, if need be. But, honestly, I bet you end up replacing those work flows with better ones within Linux before long.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Best of luck. I can't go back to windows any more. Well, I still dual boot for one game and the digital features of my national ID cause OF COURSE that software is windows only. 😒

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (9 children)

the fact they did this on ltsc as well is insane

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I switched to Linux after this sort of tricks.

They also will fuck with your "privacy and security settitings" on updates.

If you try blocking search and start pinging home. It will make windows endleally spazz which causes stuttering in games.

They forced me to switch to Linux pretty much

Thanks satya microshit...

Imagine treating a paying customer like this

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

One thing I did was go through hoops to disable the bing searches from the menu.

Instead I should have switched to linux long ago.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I switched to Linux when the "We've scheduled your free update to Windows 10!"-like popup started appearing again and again on my Win7 machine even though I disabled it. I didn't like not having a choice and they only got worse from there. Meanwhile, you have full control over every part of a Linux system. You can even uninstall the update manager if you feel like it.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Same with 'compatibility telemetry runner' after every update I have to disable it and delete the .exe from system32. None of the permanently disable tricks work. Plus I always have to run "oo shutup" to disable the other privacy stuff. I wish I could switch to another is, but most of my software is windows only.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

But don't you want to have what I've come to enjoy: Printer roulette?

Win, "printer", enter.......come on Printer and Scanner control panel, baby wants a new printer queue to kill that stuck job......dammit edge, no I don't want to search bing for an inkjet.

Win, "printer"...., enter.......come on Control Panel, you can do it......HP Smart Panel, you piece of crap

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (11 children)

My next gaming PC's gonna be Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Windows, on my work computer, decided Monday morning was a good time to turn my default pdf reader to Microsoft Edging. Turns out you can't delete Edging from add or remove programs.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (10 children)

ah i got that too!! I thought it was because monday i updated foxit reader and then for some reason it gave back the default to edge! Instead it was edge that took it back by force without my consent!

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Welcome to Windows update. Where they revert any settings you make to the OS that won't benefit them.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

really looking forward to getting another SSD and just installing linux on it so I don't have to deal with that kind of bullshit anymore. The bullshit I will be dealing with will not be privacy related, just compatibility related.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Do it. I did that a year ago. Totally worth it.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When using Microsoft products and accepting their incomprehensible terms and conditions, you have no say and your opinion doesn't matter.

Group policy doesn't matter, domain administrator, GPO rules, all of it- none of it matters.

You'll get dogshit and you will like it. (Friendly reminder that it was extremely overpriced also) That's the tax you pay for being in their horrible, horrible "ecosystem" from hell. Enjoy! Grease up or take it dry, you're "taking it" either way.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Let's also not forget the update also installed fucking edge again even with registry keys telling it not to. Fuck Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

you must have meant legacy edge! But what about NEW edge??

-windows, probably

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PC people: Many of you are now realizing what “Windows as a Service” means. Your OS is harvesting every bit of your data and sending it back to the MS Mothership.

And you’re kind enough to pony up the cash to supply the hardware for it to run on.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Kingdom of Torvalds beckons.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

So it wasnt just me that got the bar renabled

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

The enshittification of Windows continues apace.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Me running ClassicShell/OpenShell since Windows 8:

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The funniest thing is that people complain about Windows, but at the same time are afraid of switching to Linux. Linux has improved so much over the years that it is capable of doing most of the same things as Windows can do (and I don't mean restoring the search bar every update)

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