Comment on How I'd fix Windows as a retired Windows Engineer
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 17 hours agothat’s what i mean, i don’t get that criticism. what can’t you do with windows? what specifically are they asking to do?
Comment on How I'd fix Windows as a retired Windows Engineer
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 17 hours agothat’s what i mean, i don’t get that criticism. what can’t you do with windows? what specifically are they asking to do?
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
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.
Kiernian@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.