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I installed Windows 10 in a virtual machine...man, this is straight up dystopian. (lemmy.ml)
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The tips, ads, and recommendations you see will be more generic and may be less relevant to you.

And this is treated as a bad thing?!

The number of ads you see won't change, but they may be less relevant to you.

Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.

In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.

The rest of the installation process wasn't fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like "Let's get everything set up for you", and "Let Cortana help you get things done!".

Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.

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[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Every time I have to install Windows, even in VMs I install Atlas with it, getting rid of all bloat and unnecessary shit. But even with that it's a horrible experience compared to what KDE and Gnome deliver.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still don't get why people keep defending it. Win+e doesn't even open to a panel that lets me open the c drive without clicking other shit and waiting for it to appear first. An update also just put the search bar back on the task bar when I explicitly disabled it as soon as I got through the bad default options for days during the install. It also added copilot. Auto update is also supposed to be disabled.

While I'm at it fuck every dev that uses libraries/framework/etc that is known to not work in wine. There are thousands of better ways to be a shitty dev.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still don’t get why people keep defending it.

With microsoft being the most valuated company in the world rest assured that many of the people defending their products are getting paid to do it.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

PR team hard at work.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only reason I don't completely despise Windows is because it, along with Mac OS, has made computing available for the masses. The average person doesn't have the time to learn how to use a computer. They just want to use it. That in my subjective opinion is a good thing. A very strong, and valid argument could be made that it's a faustian bargain, probably because it is.

[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

If you have any basic computer skills it's really not an issue. You can turn off pretty much anything. I can't remember the last time I saw an ad within Windows tbh.

This is just fearmongering at its worst. It's like me saying Linux is only for IT companies running servers because it's unusable for a normal person as the UI is janky and it's all code based.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

All of this exists on Macs too, doesn't it?

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