• @simin@lemmy.world
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    42 years ago

    Perhaps use redirect scripts or plugins or apps. Windows often about registry so do try that.

  • Aatube
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    Use Waterfox to confuse Windows and boost your performance

      • Aatube
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        22 years ago
        1. I don’t care that much about privacy anyway. I don’t really get why privacy geeks talk about Google collecting your searches while willingly keeping Mozilla telemetry (which is something W disables by default) on. What’s the difference? I get why Google shouldn’t be collecting external data but I have no issue at all with giving them the data I actually input. Plus Firefox has a lot more deals with bad privacy groups like Google, Fakespot, and Pocket.
        2. You can’t make the assumption that they got worse on privacy just because they got bought. They’re open-source, show me the code.
        3. Waterfox is said to be slightly faster. They also seem to have a lot more focus for development.
        4. Waterfox disables some of the Mozilla BS, like Pocket and that weird redesign of tabs to floating, by default.
        • @OrdinaryAlien@lemm.ee
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          “In July 2023, Alex Kontos announced that Waterfox had been turned into an independent project again.”

          That’s very recent, I didn’t know.

          I wouldn’t use a browser bought by a shady company when there are good alternatives. I wouldn’t want to support that company by using it.

          • inactive
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            22 years ago

            That’s fair, but I get the feeling Waterfox wasn’t very profitable for them to begin with.

            I personally use it because it fills the very specific niche of re-enabling support for the legacy add-on format by default. You can do this in Firefox and other derivatives, but it’s kind of a pain and it’s easily undone by updates. I don’t know of any alternatives that do the same thing.

  • @Mio@feddit.nu
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    82 years ago

    Om Windows 10 you have the option to turn off showing news about new features. I guess it would cover this. Try Google it.

  • @JoBo@feddit.uk
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    Got this via Mastodon which will not let me search for the source.

    If you’re in the US, when you set up Windows for the first time, select English (Europe) or English (World), not English (US). That will stop it installing all the bloatware that USians are not protected from but everyone else is.

    • @simonced@lemmy.one
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      52 years ago

      We leave in Japan, and my wife had that popup once already (using Brave on Win10 - surface laptop)

      • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Throw all your important stuff onto a drive thay doesn’t contain the OS. Then remove the drive and wipe the computer. You can set it up again and choose the non-bloatware options.

      • @JoBo@feddit.uk
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        12 years ago

        I doubt it. Don’t know if a fresh install would, or if you can get it fresh enough to work.

      • @provomeister@lemmy.ca
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        52 years ago

        From what I’ve seen online, it must be done during installation. So short answer, no.

        As others have said, you could also backup your data and do a fresh installation (from a boot media, not from Windows itself just to be extra safe).

        ThioJoe also has a video talking about this English (Europe/World) thing and also provide a Powershell script to delete Windows bloatware. This option could be interesting if you don’t want to reset your whole installation.

    • @provomeister@lemmy.ca
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      272 years ago

      You must switch back to English (US) after installation if you want access to Microsoft Store (and even if you don’t, you probably should because most apps are now there).

      I’ve seen a few tools to suppress most telemetry such as ChrisTitusTech’s winutil or O&O ShutUp, maybe you could give that a try. Microsoft is really pushing hard Bing & Edge…

      Also, as a Linux user, I must obliged to the rules and say there’s alternatives out there if you want to try something new. :-) !linux@lemmy.ml

      • @Cjwii@lemm.ee
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        112 years ago

        What exactly are you getting from the Microsoft app store out of curiosity?

        • @provomeister@lemmy.ca
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          112 years ago

          Windows Terminal + WSL, everything related to Xbox if you’re using Gamepass or “Play anywhere” titles (Xbox/PC cross-buy).

          Most basics apps are from the Microsoft app store too; calculator, calendar, paint, etc.

          It’s been a hot minute since I’ve used Windows, but you’d be surprise how much apps are now updated through that app store.

          If your device use Windows in S mode, all your apps must come from the store & you must use Edge.

          • @Cjwii@lemm.ee
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            12 years ago

            Ah okay, I didn’t know people used it that way and I don’t do XBox game pass or anything like that. It makes sense. My only real experience with windows store apps has been my work computer trying to install a “personal use” version of Microsoft teams from there and apparently I had to get the professional version through M365 downloads.

    • HidingCat
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      It’s definitely a US thing, I’m on English (Singapore) and have not seen an ad, ever. I was perplexed by all the complaints of ads in the start menu and wherever, until someone pointed to me that it was a US thing.

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    Straight up the same playbook that other entities used in the past to get your grandma to install unwanted search bars in internet explorer. No wonder Windows Defender is so advanced, Microsoft has a lot of experience as the developer of the most popular malware in the world.

  • @Rooty@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    Can we make a windows tech support community? I’m really sick of people barging in and asking to fix their anti-consumer spyware OS.

  • @solarvector@lemmy.zip
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    232 years ago

    Sailing the high seas for an enterprise edition, combined with https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

    The above is my solution until taking the other advice on this thread and transitioning to Linux. Only thing holding me back there is gaming (which already works great for most people, I had trouble with my GPU). There are so many things about Linux that are just better than Windows now, and a high number of use cases these days are met with Firefox and libre office.

    • @Defaced@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      What GPU issues were you having btw? If they’re driver related you could use a distro that has Nvidia drivers baked into the ISO by default like pop_os, just use their Nvidia ISO for the install.

      • @solarvector@lemmy.zip
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        42 years ago

        AMD actually, newer 7900 xtx I think. It wasn’t a problem with the Linux desktop environment, but games crashing. At the time I didn’t have much time or patience to get it set up :/

        Win 11 just isn’t going to happen though, too many good options now. If something doesn’t work by then 🤷‍♂️, guess it isn’t that important.

        • @Defaced@lemmy.world
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          42 years ago

          Do you mind if I ask what you had tried to fix it? You could try using mesa-git for the latest bleeding edge driver’s for that new of a card.

          • @excitingburp@lemmy.world
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            32 years ago

            I’m both an AMD (7900XT) and NixOS user. AMD drivers are known for being a bit wonky when they’re brand-new on Linux.

            I continue to have a particularly bad experience with anything Flatpak (I chalk that up to its Ubuntu influences, rather than Linux in general), but everything else works perfectly.

          • @solarvector@lemmy.zip
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            12 years ago

            Thank you, I can’t remember what I did try though, and it had been a while since I had Linux as my primary OS. I was still trying to figure out how proton worked with steam and whatnot.

            By the time I get around to trying it again my card will be sufficiently aged I probably won’t need to worry about it :D

        • @darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works
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          32 years ago

          7900xt user here on Ubuntu lts: what worked for me was finding some Valve engineer’s ppa that has mesa drivers with modern chip support. I was honestly pretty pissed at how much work it was to get my gpu working in Linux after hearing so much about how good it has gotten. My experience was basically the same as ten years ago: a pain in the ass.

          I will say it’s working great now though.

  • @Sused@lemmy.sdf.org
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    322 years ago

    Use software like shutupwin10 or various other open source debloat scripts to remove a shit-ton of annoying features in windows. Or, as lemmy galaxy-brains would have it, JuSt uSe LiNuX