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The new Start menu is also a significant improvement over the old one, with more icons on show, the ability to turn off Recommended ads, [...]
Guys, we are allowed to disable the ads now. We might have been too harsh on microsoft after all.
...insanity, I tell you. Ads, in your face, right in the Start Menu, on your computer that you bought, on your OS that you bought.
Note that it doesn't disable ads. It just means the ads a user sees will be less relevant to the user based on their browsing history and consumer profiles.
Yup was gonna say the same thing.
They can be removed with third party tools but they shouldn't be there in the first place.
I switched to linux and i dual boot pop os windows now. I only use windows to configure things that has no linux support. Or when a game doesn't work right after an update. Windows is truly bizzare if you haven't used it for a bit. Like every time i clicked on the windows key, or sometimes, seemingly randomly when i opened a new windows, it opened the xbox game launcher, or whatever it's called. I never installed it obviously. I couldn't really find it, because i uninstalled everything that had the name xbox in it.i "had" to watch a video on how to disable something that i didn't install and didn't want in the first place.
They will shove ads into our faces at every possible opportunity. Ads work, they effectively brainwash you, the more you see, the better they do.
And everywhere you go there's prompts and alerts to upgrade your OneDrive storage or subscribe to Xbox game pass.
Don't even get me started on the experience on handhelds. Microsoft's attempts so far at the Xbox Full Screen experience convinces me they will never get it right.
Consumers are what, less than 10% of MS's revenue? Most of their income is from cloud (Azure, O365) so they can afford to treat their consumer customers like trash. They don't give a shit about your 50-150 bucks for a win license because it's peanuts to them.
The only viable option for consumers is to massively ditch MS products altogether and migrate to alternatives, which used to be in short supply but luckily aren't anymore.
It's probably less for OEMs, right? Most people don't install their own OS, much less pay full price for a license.
And yeah, consumer Windows could disappear and MS wouldn't care, as long as office computers are still stuck with it. Which they are.
Zac Bowden used to post a video for every single new insider build of Windows to cover any change he could, he's bought the original Surface table from 2007, he's been covering and championing all things Windows for at least a decade. To get someone like him off side, you really gotta be fucking the dog.
Yep.
I started using windows as a kid (Win 3.1). Was more or less happy to be a windows user through all of the various versions, although 95, XP and 7 were the most usable.
For the first time in about 35 years, I'm genuinely unhappy with Windows and am looking at other options.
They've really dropped the ball if users like me are unhappy.
Come to CachyOS!
It's like everything I've ever wanted from an OS served on a silver platter.
Look, I've used Cachy. It's great, pretty polished, looks nice.
But do not recommend an arch distro like that until you know person is more tech inclined.
Because a lot of Windows users are not, and they're not going to want to open the terminal.
Cachy is best for those who like to more effortlessly tinker with their system, like messing around with Polkit so KDE doesn't ask for a password every second.
Don't forget, it's not about what we've always wanted from an OS, but what the other person might want from an OS. When unknown, pick the simpler solutions, like Bazzite, Debian, or Mint.
That's how I've gotten 8 people converted to Linux from Windows this year.
The real issue is that they pulled Windows 10. When Vista was shit, you could use XP until 7 was released, when 8 was shit, you could use 7 until 10 was released. Now 11 is the only supported version and you have no choice if you're for some reason stuck with Windows.
Turns out, there were a lot of users, primarily gamers, who were considering giving Linux a chance. Microsoft gave them the push they needed.
Steam should get some credit for working on improving its proton integration.
Valve certainly put in the lion's share of effort in making Linux a hospitable environment for gamers. Without their hard work, the rise in popularity of Linux simply wouldn't be possible, and I had no intention of belittling that.
Valve made sure there were life rafts. Microsoft provided the iceberg.
I had Windows 11 on my Asus ROG Ally that I was too lazy to remove. Bitlocker locked the system randomly and would not accept the recovery key from my Microsoft Account.
I installed Bazzite the next day.
Time for Nadella to take responsibility for these fuck ups and resign already.
CEOs taking responsibility for their actions? In the Usa?!?!
It's unusable and they vibe coded the entire thing.
We had to switch back to windows 10 at work due to the issues we had with 11. Now my computer is permanently broken with many default applications that simply do not work and my IT department can't figure it out.
Wow, this is astounding. I don't love windows, but last time I used it it was at least reliable enough that you could work on it with little problems. If they lose that, then there's little more value that windows still brings to the table, except software which is only developed for windows.
Windows recently "hung up" when opening "network and internet settings", just a blank square.
Also, blank square when opening "file explorer".
Both are working now; my point is I couldn't accomplish basic tasks in the usual way, fundamentally basic settings. First time this has happened to me. I am old and have been using Windows since there were screensavers. That you would buy. For money. On a floppy disk.
Windows is getting so bad, people are finally looking more to Linux
Lol
Lmao even
Oh no. They’ll still ignore it. They don’t care.
