Not just that. Every windows update I have to go through the fucking setup screen. No I don’t want an office subscription, no I don’t want onedrive, no don’t tailor ads, no don’t collect telemetry.
Settings > System > Notifications > Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows
Disable this, there are a few others in that area you might consider disabling too
The ONE time I miss reddit awards.
You will just have to use good old poorly drawn images of coins.
Thank you!
There’s always linux
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I’m a professional gaymer and i use pop os daily
Adobe software for creative work. Afaik there’s okay replacements, but not great ones. Also, migrating your Lightroom catalog to a new software is kinda a ridiculous task
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It does not.
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have u tried making installation media with Rufus? they’ll let u use a local account and skip all that. also tiny 11 is what I use, cuts out Microsoft’s bullshit
Rufus is a fucking godsend.
Love the username. CBB TV 4 life
You could grab the ISO and use ventoy. No need to format USBs again and again. Can store multiple ISOs and whatnot.
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yea it only cuts some of it out, like one drive, edge, etc
as a gamer, Linux just doesnt work for me.
They just keep getting worse and worse! I’ve decided to investigate whether one of the Linux distributions is able to be my daily driver. With everything being a web app these days, incompatibility with business programs I use is no longer an issue. The only question now is, are my peripherals compatible?
One of the top reasons I finally went Linux and I don’t regret making the change one bit.
Idc, i use Linux.
How surprising. The company that only knows how to do one thing won’t stop doing the thing.
In other news, company doesn’t think it’s to blame for it’s bad products says ‘it’s the consumers fault for having expectations of quality.’
Now it just needs to stop forcing windows 11 on windows 10 users
the title says that Microsoft hasn’t stopped forcing Edge.
Oh shoot
I read it the same way. I thought maybe this whole google getting taken to court business for manipulating their way to top search engine scared Microsoft by nah…
…why would they?
It got installed edge on an android phone as well.
While Microsoft doesn’t normally control anything on android, my workplace requires a Microsoft intune to be installed to run the company email or teams on your phone. This effectively creates a workprofile with it’s own play store and a forced install of several applications such as edge
That’s your workplace doing that, not Microsoft
Yeah seems like a request for a work provided phone would fix it. A guy I used to work with bought a burner flip phone when something like this was required and got the company to provide a work phone. After a month or two he would just openly use his normal phone and no one batted an eye.
Demand they provide a work phone. Never put Microsoft’s stuff for work on your personal devices!!!
I would never do that to my personal phone, I installed that in a old phone that I had laying around.
That works, too. Glad to see people not trusting work apps on their private daily devices.
You should demand a work phone but work apps are usually insolated from the rest of the system for both yours and your employers benefit.
It enables your job to track you off hours. Did you go to a protest on the weekend your company doesn’t approve of? If you aren’t careful, you might give it permissions to your photos. If it’s some form of 2FA, it might desire access to your SMS. In earlier days, the Outlook app use to be able to wipe the phone, it is more sandboxed now. But can you see how allowing access to your private information is a bad idea? Just say no. If it’s for work related apps, they owe you a device to run it on.
I don’t like how any of these big tech companies try and force us to use their spyware vs letting people make an informed choice. I don’t agree with the technique, but the silver lining may be that we desperately need competition with browsers and the reality is that this is how US predatory capitalism works now. Companies take advantage of people because we have no proper regulation in the tech space. Maybe some people will switch to from Chrome to Edge (reskinned Chrome) Ranking for privacy on a 1-10 scale imho
Chrome 0 Edge 1 Firefox 5 Brave 6 LibreWolf 9
For now
I’m afraid you might have misread the title… unless you’re very optimistic
lol you’re right. I misread that, my bad.
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Most people who use PCs.
