Pays 100$ for windows 11 pro expecting to not see targeted advertising.
“Play Candy Crush on the Windows App Store Now!” ad baked into the Lock Screen ffs why
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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Buy an OEM key next time, I've never spent more than 20 bucks for Pro.
Microsoft owns github. I wonder if there's going to be a purge of this kind of software from the platform coming down the pike.
I'm sure if they did that it would spark a mass exodus and the development of a viable alternative, but I've never seen those kinds of inevitable consequences stop a corporation from enshittifying.
There are viable alternatives to GitHub already, especially if you need to host your own code.
Gitlab comes to mind.
Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub
It's impossible to imagine that they haven't talked about nixxing something like Microsoft Activation Scripts though.
The idea that a multinational corporation will be able to resist enshittification forever is pretty cute. These things happen over the course of many years. They haven't turned it to shit yet, but it's basically inevitable isn't it?
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or just dont pay. run the right commands and you unlock windows frww
shit I just copied mine from some website. bookmarking that tho
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I'm sure this is intended to block software thst could do things like remove Copilot and all the OS level advertising they keep populating windows with.
There's a literal native toggle to disable Copilot so that'd be really weird.
Until there isn't a toggle
It's just a miniscule step of enshittification away.
Death by a thousand cuts.
There's a toggle
Becomes
There's a toggle but we moved it deep into a sub menu
Becomes
If you toggle it off it also breaks a lot of other things you want to have
Becomes
Toggle it off if you want but it's still going to run in the background
Until the EU sues and forces them to have an option to actually remove it.
The only update I want is going back to Windows 7 anyway. This crap they call a modern operating system is inferior to Linux and mac os.
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At this point I've just abandoned the start menu all together. PowerToys Run has effectively become how I launch anything that isn't on the taskbar, tied to one of the buttons on my mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Everything search on a different shortcut replaces the built-in search.
Of course that's just how I cope on my mandatory-Windows 11 work laptop. At home (and I know this is almost a meme at this point), I'm slowly getting myself accustomed to Linux alongside Windows 10 until that's no longer feasible.
Am I the only one that still using the file explorer to navigate to the folders I want?I've never used the start menu..only computer then Explorer
Am I misunderstanding something or are you saying you dig into the program files every time you launch a program? I thought the OP was talking about programs not files and folder.
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I do this. All programs I access regularly are shortcuts on the desktop. Everything else I can get to with folders or launchers like steam.
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So it's just an added feature of StartAllBack - no more updating!
I tried the Official Windows 11 start menu. I had disabled showing "recommended apps" in the settings. This hid the icons, but not the section. So, whenever I opened the start menu, the entire bottom half was a section that said "enable recommended apps to show them here."
That's when I installed Start11 (I also bought StartAllBack, but I preferred Start11) and never looked back.
This isn't normal Windows Updates. These are warnings for OS upgrades as Windows Insiders upgrade to new preview builds of the OS.
WTF is the screen scaling set to on that laptop?
100% but 3840x2160 and small taskbar icons?
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