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I've been on 16.04 for a few days now, and while I did have to work through some bugs (such as sddm and lightdm fighting each other) I've been impressed so far

I've been on 16.04 for a few days now, and while I did have to work through some bugs (such as sddm and lightdm fighting each other) I've been impressed so far with the improvements. Inused to hate on Ubuntu, but on my 2014 Macbook Pro, it was the one distro that "just worked", and since I mostly run debian servers, I figure Sticking to the similar ecosystem reduces mental load of switching. I still have my issues with Shuttleworth and Canonical, but hey, it's linux, so I can remove the crap I dont like (unlike some things, staring at you windows 10).

themodelplumber 11y ago
Curious what you want to remove in Windows 10. Not an evangelist, just set it up on a dual-boot refurb for a friend and thought the initial experience wasn't bad.
- ajmarsh 11y ago
  By default, Windows sends a lot of your information to their servers sometimes without asking you to opt-in. https://fix10.isleaked.com/ https://fix10.isleaked.com/
  - ciokan 11y ago
    That's A LOT of bs to fix. And after each update I noticed it defaults some of them back to 'Enabled'.
- rhodysurf 11y ago
  Having two control panels
  - criddell 11y ago
    Not a fan of TIMTOWTDI?
    - saint_fiasco 11y ago
      In Windows 10 there are some things that can only be configured from one of the Control Panels and I never remember which.
    - rhodysurf 11y ago
      I like more than one way to do things, the issue is the two control panels do different things and its impossible to remember which does what. For example, I can configure a VPN adapter in one Control Panel (Legacy) but I have to go to the other Control Panel (New) to connect or disconnect it or anything like that.
- stegosaurus 11y ago
  My experience of Windows 10 is limited to having a look at it in local computer shops (I've been trying to find a decent cheap laptop to stick Linux on for a friend). I clicked the Start Menu. Fully half of it was made up of flashing animated crap - things moving about, very colourful adverts, the actual things I wanted to do were obscured by it. I tried a few machines. They did the same thing. Maybe it's a manufacturer default. Hey, maybe it's customizable. I don't know. It just struck me as being so far from what I think of a computer as being - not a tool to be used, but a flashy, childish entertainment box, like a children's rainbow cake. My ego betrays me at this point, I suppose. I don't understand how the engineers at Microsoft got to this point. It reminds me a lot of the Xbox 360 dashboard. That was the point I left 'mainstream' video gaming - it felt like my hackery, fun world had turned into a world of consuming advertising, of subscribing, of being someone else's plaything. Perhaps it was always like that, and I was too young to see?
  - gvb 11y ago
    You can right-click on the Windows 10 flashing animated crap and remove it from the start menu. > I don't understand how the engineers at Microsoft got to this point. It was likely the marketeers driving the engineers.
  - oblio 11y ago
    The Start menu in Windows 10 can be configured in about 2-10 clicks to stay put.
    - raarts 11y ago
      Poor choice of default settings.
  - RaleyField 11y ago
    Right click, turn live tile off. I don't know why you even bother with Linux if you didn't even try the first logical graphical gesture that one can reasonably expect to lead to fixing this problem. You can even remove most/all default tiles, like any sane poweruser would do. The same as in Windows 8. On live tiles - Apple has dashboard that has seen more success than widgets on Vista+, Microsoft decided to push some of this functionality on live tiles, so that you can have an app launcher that doubles as a widget when you want to display information on it, but that functionality is optional. If it was off on all default tiles then nobody would know about it, so it'd be a bad default. What I'd want to know about Windows 10 though, and Google seems not to deliver anything beyond bullshit articles on how to disable it or useless scaremongering blogspam - clearly enumerated and sourced list of information telemetry subsystem captures and sends back to mothership and what parts can be reliably disabled without resorting to shady third-party apps.
- arca_vorago 11y ago
  If I was an average user, cortana would definitely be one thing I might want to disable but probably couldn't do so easily. I'll admit I had to use my powershell script for getting rid of GWX on win7 as a base to completely get rid of Cortana without feeling like some update was going to magically re-enable her. Also, see: https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck

themodelplumber 11y ago

Curious what you want to remove in Windows 10. Not an evangelist, just set it up on a dual-boot refurb for a friend and thought the initial experience wasn't bad.

ajmarsh 11y ago
By default, Windows sends a lot of your information to their servers sometimes without asking you to opt-in. https://fix10.isleaked.com/ https://fix10.isleaked.com/
- ciokan 11y ago
  That's A LOT of bs to fix. And after each update I noticed it defaults some of them back to 'Enabled'.
rhodysurf 11y ago
Having two control panels
- criddell 11y ago
  Not a fan of TIMTOWTDI?
  - saint_fiasco 11y ago
    In Windows 10 there are some things that can only be configured from one of the Control Panels and I never remember which.
  - rhodysurf 11y ago
    I like more than one way to do things, the issue is the two control panels do different things and its impossible to remember which does what. For example, I can configure a VPN adapter in one Control Panel (Legacy) but I have to go to the other Control Panel (New) to connect or disconnect it or anything like that.
stegosaurus 11y ago
My experience of Windows 10 is limited to having a look at it in local computer shops (I've been trying to find a decent cheap laptop to stick Linux on for a friend). I clicked the Start Menu. Fully half of it was made up of flashing animated crap - things moving about, very colourful adverts, the actual things I wanted to do were obscured by it. I tried a few machines. They did the same thing. Maybe it's a manufacturer default. Hey, maybe it's customizable. I don't know. It just struck me as being so far from what I think of a computer as being - not a tool to be used, but a flashy, childish entertainment box, like a children's rainbow cake. My ego betrays me at this point, I suppose. I don't understand how the engineers at Microsoft got to this point. It reminds me a lot of the Xbox 360 dashboard. That was the point I left 'mainstream' video gaming - it felt like my hackery, fun world had turned into a world of consuming advertising, of subscribing, of being someone else's plaything. Perhaps it was always like that, and I was too young to see?
- gvb 11y ago
  You can right-click on the Windows 10 flashing animated crap and remove it from the start menu. > I don't understand how the engineers at Microsoft got to this point. It was likely the marketeers driving the engineers.
- oblio 11y ago
  The Start menu in Windows 10 can be configured in about 2-10 clicks to stay put.
  - raarts 11y ago
    Poor choice of default settings.
- RaleyField 11y ago
  Right click, turn live tile off. I don't know why you even bother with Linux if you didn't even try the first logical graphical gesture that one can reasonably expect to lead to fixing this problem. You can even remove most/all default tiles, like any sane poweruser would do. The same as in Windows 8. On live tiles - Apple has dashboard that has seen more success than widgets on Vista+, Microsoft decided to push some of this functionality on live tiles, so that you can have an app launcher that doubles as a widget when you want to display information on it, but that functionality is optional. If it was off on all default tiles then nobody would know about it, so it'd be a bad default. What I'd want to know about Windows 10 though, and Google seems not to deliver anything beyond bullshit articles on how to disable it or useless scaremongering blogspam - clearly enumerated and sourced list of information telemetry subsystem captures and sends back to mothership and what parts can be reliably disabled without resorting to shady third-party apps.
arca_vorago 11y ago
If I was an average user, cortana would definitely be one thing I might want to disable but probably couldn't do so easily. I'll admit I had to use my powershell script for getting rid of GWX on win7 as a base to completely get rid of Cortana without feeling like some update was going to magically re-enable her. Also, see: https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck