Comment on How I'd fix Windows as a retired Windows Engineer

• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly what Microsoft should have done was sorta what Apple did with BSD but with Linux, write a killer front end but leave the Unix bits underneath. There’s your workshop to make a mess.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  that’s what i mean, i don’t get that criticism. what can’t you do with windows? what specifically are they asking to do?

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  • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    • Use it without OneDrive being bundled
    • Use it without a Microsoft account
    • Use it without ads
    • Use it without Copilot

    Yes, I know there are ways around each of these but the settings are all in different places, Microsoft keeps changing where the settings are, resetting to defaults on OS updates, and at least for trying to use it without a Microsoft account, actively closing loopholes for doing so.

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    • Kiernian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Use it without telemetry Use it without mandatory notifications that turn themselves back on if you turn them off Use it without file grouping by date if I so choose

      There’s a giant list of configuration options they took away from 10 to 11 and more that they keep making more and more difficult to find, and this trend has been going on since aero was introduced in xp.

      Some of us liked the power user options in win2k and feel they should have been expanded, not removed.

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