Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise
Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise
Microsoft has confirmed that the Tips will no longer be updated with new features and will eventually be removed from future releases of Windows.
never liked it anyway
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A real OS will let you uninstall any part if it you feel like removing.
It's seriously hilarious to me that something like Linux will literally let you uninstall the bootloader and reboot without installing a new one and won't say shit about it. :D
It's by design. What if I boot from USB? Then what's on the disk is irrelevant. I can boot a kernel off a USB drive and chroot into any drive i feel like. Hell, I could boot from a USB and then chroot into my broken drive and reinstall the bootloader without having to reinstall the OS.
Lets see MS pull that off. I bet once you corrupt the registry enough you have no choice but to reformat and start over.
You can’t even put /Users fully onto a second drive without hacks that potentially break Windows Update because they can’t even be arsed to use their own environment variables or follow mounts.
“Reformatting huh? Hope you had a backup of all your documents, lol. Hey why not try OneDrive only $199 a year bro”
Man I forgot that you can't even import backed-up profiles into a new Windows install.
There used to be a native tool called Windows Easy Transfer, but it was dropped in Windows 10 in favor of third-party tools like PCmover and transwiz. There is still Microsoft's USMT, but that's designed as an enterprise tool and I think it depends on MECM.
I dont have a fucking clue what any of that dumb shit means.
I copy /home/me over --- I copy it back
FOSS LIFE
Don't forget to check your permissions and selinux file contexts.
I mean, there's transfer wiz and profile wiz that'll do it, but not any builtin tools unfortunately.
Sure, if you boot a Windows recovery image, you can do that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-bootrec-exe-in-the-windows-re-to-troubleshoot-startup-issues-902ebb04-daa3-4f90-579f-0fbf51f7dd5d
Similarly, in Linux, I've seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the easiest course of action.
It's almost like every OS will have issues if you start fucking up core parts of it, who would have guessed?
Yep I'm well aware. I jumped on the Linux train awhile ago. It's so freeing.
I remember when you could uninstall Internet Explorer on your own as a regular ass user. Now? Get rekt idiot you're stuck with Edge on your system and we're gonna regularly reset it as your default browser.
I've not had win 10 default to another browser (edge) one single time in the five or so years I have used it.
I get the windows hate, but I also hate seeing bs about shit that doesn't happen.
I had it happen on Windows 11 after the last major feature update. :(
EDIT: I should mention this is on a laptop that isn't my main PC.
What hardcore Linux users don't seem to really get is this: The vast majority of people who need to use computers simply do not care about anything you just said. They absolutely don't. They simply want to press a button to boot the device, use the apps they need and maybe even play a game and that's it. That is what Windows does for them.
The average user is overwhelmed when the desktop icons have been moved.
I love Linux and it is on a great way to being used by a wider audience and it's great it provides the freedom it does. But it still has its quirks that makes it too hard to use for 95% of users.
But the average user is not going to uninstall their bootloader to begin with. We were talking about power users. As a power user it's nice to be able to do whatever you want.
Spoken like someone that's never had a friend lose their harddrive because Windows did some dumb shit.
I dont care that granny can't install a new grub.
It would be nice if windows at least gave you an option -- which it does not.
If that happens, there are people like you and I who are into that shit. And it's great that there are alternatives that can help out in such a case. I don't know how to fix more complex issues on my motorcycle, that's when I ask my friends or my mechanic to fix it for me.
Yeah well, I don't care either..? She probably doesn't need to most of the time? So the one time she does, she goes to a shop or asks her grandson who is good with them darn computers.
You know when Linux really started to become more popular? When it dumbed stuff down and made things easier out of the box. It's great that it is still so flexible. But you don't draw in the masses with the argument that you can reinstall the bootloader if you want. You draw in the masses with a nicely designed and easy to use GUI. Simple as that.
I'm not defending Windows. I fucking hate what they do. But Linux Gurus also need to understand that there are two kinds of people - those who want to fully control the OS - and those that simply want to use it.
* starts sweating being the only IT guy in the family *