Camera app, Cortana app, Photos app, People app, and the Remote Desktop client
I use 3 of those regularly. Meanwhile stuff like the Xing app stay, of course.
Alternatively, you can get a copy of Win 10 LTSC that doesn’t have any bloatware pre-installed.
Nobody wants a smartphone-like function on an OS for pc/laptop. Also giving users back the control over would be nice looking at you defender.
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While I’m not mad at all that they’ve killed Cortana as a service, I am a little ticked that they used the name for their C- Siri and are now calling their AI service Bing AI instead of using the Cortana name for that
Wait someone used cortana?
That was my thought too. I use none of those type of programs. I know how to work a computer or some other device. I don’t need to command it like a dog.
This is my favorite description of voice commands 😂
yeah but now I can’t stop thinking about how I’m not asking my devices to do things - instead I just force them to with my hands…
They’ve realized nothing. Have you opened Edge lately? A gazillion new privacy-invading features that could be relegated to web plugins. Bloat bloat bloat.
Most of that is default in Edge due to Chromium?
Nope. Bing. AI. Spell Check. Sidebar. Etc etc etc.
Recommendations.
And you have to go to a flag or about special settings page to disable them. They know it’s toxic but profitable
The photos app on windows 11 is very good. It can read raw files and display them and has a pretty good auto-colour correct function. I wouldn’t uninstall it.
Once I cared about preinstalled bloatware. As long as it is inactive and small I stopped caring. The named apps together aren’t even 200MByte.
Windows 11 Pro, now with NOTHING installed. Windows 11 Pro plus, now with firefox pre-installed so you can clame your system never had edge on it!
How about insta- crap and so on? Any idea to prevent it from having it in any new profile?
it’s crazy to think that you can’t just uninstall some apps in the first place even though it would be technologically possible
Realized?? They knew all the time, and didn’t give a shit.
It’s more likely that they have pushed too far, and users are pushing back. They will dial it back a bit, and hope people forget.
How is this company finding that out only just now lol
They’ve known since all their other shitty windows. It’s been ass since xp
I liked Win 7 and am still liking Win 10. That Win XP nostalgia isn’t up to date anymore.
Do you know what nostalgia means?
Yes.
I assume you think it comes with a time limit? :/
That’s not how I meant it. User Stinkywinks said that all Windows since Windows XP are shitty, which I disagree with. XP is often treated as a superior and awesome OS, which may have been okay for its time, but can, imho, not compete with Win 7 or Win 10.
Missing the old times is one thing, but claiming the old times were better is another.
It’s like comparing cars of different eras. Yeah sure, the old Ford Maverick from the 70s was a cool car. But it was also a lot less efficient, a lot less comfortable and a lot less secure. It’s surely not better in these aspects than more modern cars.
So go ahead swaying in nostalgia, but stop glorifying Windows XP for being a better OS than modern successors.
speak for yourself. I love XP and I’m super into vaporwave which has a huge following for nostalgia of that era.
Have fun. As long as you don’t claim that XP is better than 7 or 10 you won’t hear me complaining.
I mean 10 is what I have now. It’s pretty mid. But I agree, 7 was pure garbage lol
Yeah win7 is good, but god damn, I have windows 11 on my work laptop, FML. Are they just trying to turn it into the Mac os? Whyyyyyy, what have they done. I use to have to click multiple buttons just to do the normal right click properties. They fixed that, but I still can’t stand it. I remember back when they released one of them after 7, doing everything to disable all the crazy services. Havnt bothered messing with that again though.
Aye. I think I’m going to avoid Win 11 as long as possible. Let’s see what they make of it.
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I get permission denied notices with a fully permissioned admin account on win7. I never got that with xp. That’s unacceptable on a machine i own.
What are you doing to get those permission denies as admin?
xp was pretty solid. win7 was iffy for a year or so then it was solid. win8 was trash but 8.1 was really decent. win10 is their best OS yet imho, though it had similar issues to win7 - kinda shit at first. thinking I might skip win11 until it gets to be solid as well - probably 2025/26 at the earliest.
That, and stop dumbing down the UI. Gradeschoolers in 1999 could operate windows, it doesn’t need to get dumber
LoL, tell that to every fucking child and teenager who have been using an iPhone, iPad and MacOS for all their lives. It’s unbelievable how stupid you can get when you’re locked into a walled garden and the OS you’re using is designed for three year olds. I have a buddy who’s mainly a Mac and iPhone guy, and I fuck you not, he doesn’t know how to use anything else. He’ll just stare at the screen and simply don’t understand what to do.
Agreed. I have been working so hard to get my young kids to understand file systems, directory structures, keyboard shortcuts, etc; all that stuff that just never gets learned anymore with all the iOS/Android interactions.
I’m building a new PC for myself in the next few weeks and if they want to continue playing Genshin/Starcraft2/BeamNG/Trackmania on my older PC as it becomes the “Family PC” they will need to sit with me and learn how to reassemble it, install Windows, attaching peripherals, and setup a few basic things.
That’s the price and that’s the reward.
Many of us grew up in a world where you had to figure this shit out or simply not have a working computer/piece of software.
1999 gradeschoolers not today’s Gradeschoolers with win98
Gradeschoolers, yes.
Boomers are still struggling even with the modern, simplified UI. They would likely continue to struggle if we had Idiocracy style UI on things (big, bright colored buttons with pictures of what they do).
Gradeschoolers, yes.
Not so much anymore. Gradescoolers all grew up on iPads and are probably worse off than boomers.
Boomers struggle period, its hard being stupid
I’m amazed they can sort of navigate an iphone
I think they mostly just tap around until they get where they need to go, something in between a parrot and a monkey with a typewriter.
Er, it’s not the boomers who are struggling. They’re barely even in the workforce anymore.
https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/grow-google-2019/smartphone-generation-computer-help/3127/
Apparently a large portion of the population, regardless of generation, proudly announces their tech illiteracy. I’m IT, and these people don’t even remember their personal email passwords.
