3d ago

Anon uses Windows

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I've been using windows my entire life and have never run into any of the issues Linux users talk about all the time.
- I dont think annon is a Linux user
  
  I don't know of anyone who uses any other OS that complain about windows the way Linux users do
  
  Have you seen Windows users? Most of them here Windows
- Lucky you.
- I just had to use my job's OEM device to connect to our new contactor's site since it doesn't work with my machines for some reason (standard deb stable and a popos machine). When I boot into it the lock screen was so overwhelming with weather info, news and other junk I just had to laugh. Its crazy how much junk you need to disable to have a usable device. I haven't really seen vanilla windows for awhile, but it seemed like Vegas slot machine with how many notifications I was getting.
  
  We may call it junk, but a lot of users want those kinds of features.
  It also isn't an "unusable device" just because it shows if it is going to be cloudy. Stop being so pedantic.
  And all of it can easily be disabled with a simple easy-to-find setting. But it is on by default because a majority of users don't look into their settings and thus wouldn't know it is available.
  You have to remember that Windows was made for non-tech savvy users. Not for you and me.
  
  a lot of users want those kinds of features
  I had to re-enable them on computers at my company. I changed a policy to get rid of it and by the end of the day I had a dozen or so emails (~10% of the company) asking for them back.
  YMMV of course and I don't personally like them. But a lot of people actually do. I think a lot of the people in communities like this forget how much of a power user they really are, and what actual users really want.
  
  I have a Win11 ThinkPad for work, so I get MS ads, Lenovo ads, and 2 or 3 versions each of Teams and Outlook. We use SharePoint, so when I open a file from there via the web interface, I don't want to deal with that BS for printing. Depending if it's Word or Excel, the button/link for opening in the desktop app will be located differently (or maybe it's based on editing permissions), but it never fails to throw a dialog saying it couldn't open the file in desktop mode and asking if i want to cancel or try again...just before the desktop app opens.
  Some of these things don't happen every day, but they all happen every week, and anyone who doesn't see a problem with that hasn't used a half-decent OS (and I'm willing to include early-release Win10 in that group, telemetry and Cortana notwithstanding).
  
  I mean it was 4 years ago (still 10) and in rough EU area (luckily, nobody but Apple cares enough to not include Swiss) so it was no that bad. But it was a developer device with admin rights, so everything that popped up a notification without good reason got removed.
  Btw, every and each driver vendor installs a background service "for updates" on Windows, that tracks you and occasionally shows ads or flips out to eat all CPU. You can just copy the driver file, uninstall that crap and install the driver file via HWManager. Sorry, i don't remember the file extension, have to google it.

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