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Who's in charge? (lemmy.world)
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[+] -10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Even Windows 11 still has all the options Windows 7 had, and plenty more. Stop swallowing the Linux propaganda.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's the constant war on end users that chased me away from windows.

    You can't say no to their relentless advertising. It's "maybe later". The pushing to require a Microsoft account. Ads in the start menu. Windows Recall.

    The list goes on. You get as much agency as Microsoft allows, or you violate your eula and modify the os to remove things you don't want.

    We didn't know it at the time, but windows 7 was peak windows.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    100% valid choice. I'd argue that it's even the correct one.

    That said, those specific examples are all "solved". My issue is that the overwhelming amount of Linux pushers here tend to act as though those issues are literally unsolvable.

    The ads are nearly all controlled from a single yes/no switch a single level deep into the settings menu. And that switch has not been reset by updates in at least four years. Since I've joined lemmy, every single "Microsoft is pushing more ads into Windows" article I've seen has been talking about ads controlled by this same singular switch.

    Things like the pushing of the Microsoft account and Recall are mostly avoided by using their Professional SKU/License/OS version and using GPO to disable those features. Or to take specific steps during install. You have to use the tools they have for corporate customers that have specific legal guidelines that prevent them from being able to use whatever MS's new revenue extraction trick is.

    Bullshit? Yes. Should anyone have to do this shit to have a decent OS? No.

    But if you're savvy enough to navigate Linux, you're more than capable of navigating this shit on Windows. It's not impossible.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I just riced my work computer, let me fucken tell ya about tricking out a windows machine: its fucking embarrassing. Not that its fundamentally different than customizing Linux, for both you download apps (or packages). But its a clumsy ass mess on windows that has to overlay the existing shit, on Linux the only shit that exists is what I want. I dont have to deal with an onery built in taskbar, or trick a built in window manager to be tiling. The one I pick does what I want.

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