In my view, this is unacceptable…
They changed my background (previously there was a default blue window), placed an icon in the bottom corner of the screen that read “Learn more about this photo”, and re-added the search bar that I had previously removed.
Fortunately, I don’t have to deal with this on a daily basis.
Sweet wallpaper though
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What VM software are you using?
“Boxes” from Gnome shipped by default with Fedora
My windows vm runs Cairo shell as the desktop and I’ve replaced the file manager with Dolphin and the command prompt with Konsole and notepad with Kate and it almost feels like a usable operating system
Kindows
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VirOS
That one was programmed by Vir Cotto, and Lennier
no no no, it asked your permission. It’s just that the “we added back the search bar, is that ok” dialog defaults to “yes” after some short time. Extremely fucking annoying change
the dialog:
I had no dialog
According to the screenshot the question is only asked embedded in the start menu. Windows 10 does that all the time without actually asking. Win11 is better at actually keeping the configuration.
The dialog goes away after a short time defaulting to “yes I want the useless search bar”
It happened on all my PCs, I was infuriated
Poor you!
Yeah, I don’t view changing your desktop background when you were using the default as an issue lol.
I do, it’s userspace. Expectation is that they keep their paws away after user set it up.
If someone didn’t explicitly choose to use the default then they didn’t set it up. They were just using the default.
Yeah, and that’s where the OS vendor shouldn’t meddle anymore.
Ooooh, so meddlesome, the default desktop background changed, big corpo is coming for you. Come on, we shouldn’t mix actually valid complaints with stupid stuff like this. OP specifically mentioned the search bar thing that they turned off. That’s valid. Forgive me if I don’t see the problem with changing the default desktop background, something that literally all OSes and Desktop Environments do fairly regularly that nobody raises a fuss about.
I agree with you here. As soon as you change something, that should be respected but as long as you use the default theme/wallpaper/… that could just as well mean that you prefer tracking the default or don’t care at all.
Now bringing back the explicitly disabled search bar really is atrocious
The fact Microsoft keeps re-enabling features users are disabling isn’t something to just ignore. Imagine if they were the silently turn on a feature like Recall.
Never happened on my systems. And I oversee >200 systems.
This screams the microsoft diashow feature for the background. Those (at times) rarely change and OP probably applied the wallpaper by right-clicking a picture instead of changing it from the settings and that’s at best a bug because Windows didnt notice you set the wallpaper from a different part of the system…I was mostly referring to the search bar and I’ve seen multiple people report Microsoft updates reverting settings.
Microsoft reverting settings never happened to me as well.
Might be US (or non-EU) users getting shafted as per usual.
This is why you should not trust them regarding Recall. They will not let it go. It will be forced on you eventually.
OUR desktop wallpaper, comrade
They don’t do this shit in Linux.
Come join us, Comrade.
Hmm, on one of the KDE plasma updates, my wallpaper did change to their infamous teletubby wallpaper. Mind you, I was still using the default wallpaper at that time, and this was their new default wallpaper, so that’s probably why.
Tell that to Fedora that keeps resetting the Firefox homepage back to a Fedora news site.
Silly consumer. You thought you owned your copy of Windows. You LEASED it! "
All your data are belong to Microsoft
You don’t own your computer anymore, Microsoft just allows you to use it.
Somebody set up us the bomb!
We get signal.
What!
Main screen turn on.
It’s you!!
How are you gentlemen!!
Exactly.
The good old, “If it’s not your source, it’s not your computer.”
Time to switch to Windows 11 as Microsoft is going to make your experience as bad as possible
If you need Windows I would create Samba AD DC and then join the machine to the domain. From there you can configure it with group policy
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True but the AD can be useful for other things and is separate from the install
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I like to split the roles into separate VMs. I have a few VMs joined to the domain and I can house all the configs and user profiles on the DC. If I need to blow away a machine for whatever reason I do not need to recreate work. I just create a new VM and then join the domain. All the group policy tweaks apply and I don’t need to manually change settings.
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I wish there was an easier way to tell people about Ameliorated and give it a try. Having Windows update and edge removed has already been so much better.
Now I do have to mention that I still run the iso they offered back on version 21H1 which I prefer because installing Windows takes roughly 2 minutes until it’s ready to do whatever
Nice, looks really cool. Wanted to do a clean install anyway, will give it a try.
Hey, got a link to the wallpaper for your main OS? Not the windows one, the red and black one we see part of in the image. Thanks!
It’s one of the Gnome default wallpapers
The colors make me think it’s one of the Ubuntu default wallpapers.
Chris Titus made this tool. I use it to debloat windows, disable all the telemetry, then pause all feature updates for two years and let only security updates through. As an added bonus (and if you want win11), he added a tool to create a micro windows iso. I am running the micro and it has been fantastic. I even removed defender and other garbage they force on people.
I wonder how many people confuse him for the comedian.
I assumed it wasn’t the comedian, but bought that he might be angry enough at Windows to make it happen.
I just did
Didn’t even know about a comedian with this name
He’s pretty good. Kinda like a left leaning Dennis Leary
Who’s Dennis Leary? 😂 Sorry, immigrant here and don’t know many people.
He’s a comedian from the '90s and early '00s
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Oh, ok. Good thing I didn’t know him I guess.
Nah, look him up. He is actually funny, but a bit right wing these days. He was closer to mainstream in the '90s
Oh, and watch the video. It is funny.
Oh definitely look up Christopher Titus on YouTube he put all his standup specials on there for free.
I used a similar tool in the past. When I wanted to re-enable something, I forgot which tool I used to disable it, and I couldn’t actually get it working ever again
