Laughs in KDE
Laughs in tty
Laughs in windows.
Everyone is making fun of the apps included in OP, but it’s besides the point—apps that demand resources at startup are the worst if you don’t need them. I ruthlessly deny permissions for anything installed, it’s like Gandalf in there holding the bridge and pushing presumptuous asshole apps over the bridge.
For those that don’t know, theres a tab in Windows task manager called Startup that let’s you modify what apps get started when you log in.
You can also look at the services.msc tool and check all your startup services.
Thanks(!!!) for the reminder. I knew about it but just never think to go in there. I just now disabled a ton of things I don’t need running.
Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager “start up” super charged.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
Disclainer, misuse can seriously fuck windows. Use with caution. Do not uncheck microsoft crap, no matter how tempting, or anything you’re unsure about.
Do not uncheck microsoft crap, no matter how tempting
The temptation is real though
Most raid drivers are fine to uncheck, if you have no raid. There’s one that isn’t really a raid driver and causes a bluescreen if unchecked but i’ve forgotten which.
That’s what I like the most about some software companies, the names are either cryptic, or conflicting, and nobody seems to know what is what 😅
+1 for autoruns
Msconfig is also handy for disabling services as you can hide default MS services
Windows 10/11: Ctrl+alt+delete, click on task manager, click on autostart applications (left panel), setup your applications for autostart
Ctrl+Shift+Escape open task manager directly. Very useful hotkey
The dreaded McAfee clan was a feared invader. They would take over entire societies and constantly knock on peoples doors with monthly taxes, or “renewals” as they would call them. They would install them selves deep into the government and never let go. Coups thereafter would be futile. You had to level entire nations to get rid of them.
Therefore the McAfee’s was known as the worst colonisers in the entire realm.
USE LINUX
Nope
This is such an own goal it’s almost a meme at this point.
You know why Linux doesn’t have this shit? Because it hasn’t attracted the ire of the marketing team. Do you know why that is? Because the fraction of target users using Linux is TINY. It’s not worth the expensive engineering effort, especially when you consider the demographic using Linux is unlikely to fall for this shit.
The more you win the “use linux” argument, the more the argument won’t make sense. The day Linux gets enough user share to justify it, is the day all this shit starts happening on Linux.
Also it’s much easier to disable on Linux and not every distro uses the same program to start apps on boot so most annoying programmes can’t find it. Discord (which I would ideally move away from if my friends didn’t use it) certainly thinks it’s enabled on startup somehow.
Windows seems to start some startup apps before you log in also worries me as that means malware could start before you are able to remove it and I don’t know how to reach tty mode before reaching a gui so yeah…
They hated him because he spoke the truth
Jesus fuck…
News just in, Jesus Christ fucks for Linux. News at 5
I’ll buy that for a dollar
That’s a spicy meat-a-ball!
Lol it’s everywhere here
For good reason, made the switch around the same time joining lemmy and haven’t looked back.
prep a live usb and try a few different window managers on whatever distro you align with, (hearing lime is easiest for beginners) youl know when you arrived home.
For me that was here
Yeah I also switched because of here and longtime frustration with windows.
That was not even the longest winded “I use Arch btw.”
If you hate learning useful life skills, don’t use Linux! I use Arch BTW. 😉
Nice dots!
Gnutard
He didn’t even /anything with his Linux. I think that charge is incorrect
Normally I’m cool with all the suggestions to use Linux when Windows is making itself worse. It provides a FOSS alternative that avoids the new anti-feature.
But this is not an attack on Windows. Linux has startup apps as well.
I’ve never had any startup apps (Linux mint)
So what, when you turn on your computer it goes straight to the BIOS menu?
It’s okay if you want to click things all the time
KDE starts whatever was left open on my distro, and that did cause issues with apps that minimize on close, but I learned to close from taskbar and I understand why those apps do that. I actually had a harder time getting my vpn to start on startup
Linux apps generally don’t ask for this permission unnecessarily though. I remember back when I used windows everything I installed was bundling its own update manager that runs at startup etc.
Laughs in portage/zypper/apt/pacman
I wonder if you could integrate pacman into Gentoo. What a beautiful monstrosity it would be!
Or paludis
Nope you need systemd or something else to start them as far as I know.
WE HEARD YOU.
Ow, would you all stop screaming already? It is hurting my ears. 🙁
How about no
c’mon man knock it off
signed, a fellow linux user
You’ve gotta let FrankTheHealer shout from the rooftops. He has windows to heal
People still use CCleaner?
Origin side loads even when you disable it’s start up service (super annoying)
If you’re talking about “ea background service”, you can disable it by deactivating background downloads in the settings.
Only thing missing from this atrocious set of spyware is Valorant’s properiarty Vangaurd rootkit
Fuck riot. Don’t play their trash
Gross, Windows.
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Daily driving Windows in 2024 is like eating McDonalds for every meal.
I mean, sure, it is popular…
Unless you’re not an idiot lol.
Jokes on you they’re running FreeBSD
To be fair they didn’t say they used Linux, so you’re sorta wrong in this case.
I use fedora btw.
Literally wrote that comment on a MacBook, lol.
Eew Apple
Don’t worry, it’s just the front end for the Linux server since it has a nice track pad.
Lol
Buying a NVME was the best decision I made about tech.
Common windows L
Win+L? Ok session locked
Super+L for me but the Windows OS just has a lot of losses
And mouse to top right for me. With windows is usually the users who screw up, the worst of the product itself is that it advertises at you
If Linux had the bulk of users we’d be seeing idiot things users installed on Mint
I’d like to mention that windows also wants your location, advertises in a paid product and you don’t even know what data Microsoft is getting from you also they make it more difficult to use the product by running random apps you don’t need like phone link or other qol apps that cause problems like edge literally opening with your Google chrome data if you uninstall it.
So instead companies would be limited to less powerful spyware but users would likely still install dumb stuff and give anything root permissions that asks for them.
i have a potato laptop with only 4gb of ram, safe to say most startup apps are off
Could you upgrade the ram or is it ddr2?
Lol nice parody
The site won’t load for me, but does this download dedotated wam?
It does indeed.
I prefer the “putting your swap on gdrive” joke
For those that have this issue,
Disclaimer:
misuse can seriously fuck up windows. Disabling things that shouldnt be, is bad. Many of the services are required by other aplications to run. Do not disable any Microsoft services you dont know what they do - otherwise disable as many as possible until the computer stops working.
If you can not read or just want to uncheck everything you see, this is not for you:
Sysinternals Autoruns is like the task manager “start up” section on 5 doeses of steroids. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
It is but you don’t want to recommend it to anybody who doesn’t know what they’re doing because they can seriously break their computer lol
My bad, I normally leave a disclamier, but I forgot.
Please disable all Microsoft services. Your PC and privacy will thank you… (Unless you decide to use something somehow even worse)
There’s definiaty some you can and should be disable, but I’d use O&O for that. Unless you actually know what each service does, its best to leave them alone.
The only Microsoft service I have is vscode and that’s open source… You don’t need any Microsoft services.
vscodium fyi
true I should probably get that.
Ya know any services that can be disabled in general and how to safely turn them off and back on if something doesn’t work? I hate how Windows Services eats up so much of my really powerful computer.
