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> It's annoying, but not that annoying. I dunno, I've done all kinds of stuff to my windows 10 machine to keep Candy Crush Soda from reinstalling itself. Yet e
by ctrl-j 10y ago
> It's annoying, but not that annoying.
I dunno, I've done all kinds of stuff to my windows 10 machine to keep Candy Crush Soda from reinstalling itself. Yet every few weeks/months that King garbage ends up on my start menu.
I use windows 10 because I'm a .NET developer and a gamer. If I could use OSX on my desktop instead, and have access to the same steam games - I can't think of a reason I would stay.
> Less cluttering--I can uninstall apps on windows
On OSX you typically don't need to 'uninstall' just drag to the trash. Yeah, some apps leave some garbage behind - but the same happens on windows when you 'uninstall'
> Native package manager-- I guess Windows has Chocolatey and I use npm for dev work.
I think the biggest detriment on this point for windows is that the command line interface on windows is not friendly. I recently worked on a project where half the team didn't know powershell, and the other half really loved powershell. We also used some stuff from the node ecosystem. We had scripts that would only run in cmd.exe, powershell scripts, and scripts that only worked in bash. In the end http://cmder.net/ http://cmder.net/ saved my butt, since I could have all three shells open.
- maccard 10y ago> I dunno, I've done all kinds of stuff to my windows 10 machine to keep Candy Crush Soda from reinstalling itself. Yet every few weeks/months that King garbage ends up on my start menu. Another anecdote, I right clicked and clicked "unpin from start" and never saw it again.
- jvzr 10y agoIt's still there though, isn't it? Granted you don't see it in the Start Menu, but it remained installed on your system. God knows if it's not having its own process at launch, doing similarly nasty stuff?
- Godel_unicode 10y agoGod, and anyone who knows how to read logfiles.
- scholia 10y agoIt isn't. You could easily check that in Task Manager or Process Explorer and/or Glasswire or whatever. Most of these things take up a trivial amount of disk space -- some of them are just placeholders -- so they're not worth the time taken to worry about them.
- jvzr 10y agoI understand they are not worth it, but it boggles my mind that you have to accept their presence in the first place. You never explicitly asked for it to be added there, did you?
- scholia 10y agoYou never asked for Solitaire or Freecell either. And you never asked for Notepad or Calculator or whatever. Did you have mini-hysterics about Solitaire being bundled, and did you waste hours worrying about it or removing it? What about the pernicious inclusion of Edie Brickell's Good Times in Windows 95? ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc Candy Crush Saga was actually one of the benefits of Windows 10 that Microsoft promoted, for two reasons: (1) Candy Crush was enormously popular, and (2) it provides practice in touch operations, just as Solitaire got people used to using a mouse.
- jolux 10y agoThis is idiocy. Solitaire and Freecell are originally not video games, and nobody is making money off selling them. Candy Crush Saga, on the other hand...well, I don't think I need to explain to you who benefits from having it preinstalled on Windows.
- scholia 10y agoThis is idiocy. Freecell was originally sold as part of a games pack for Windows, and Candy Crush Saga is a highly-rated game that's otherwise available from the Windows Store. Thousands of people have downloaded it. The Good Times video in Windows 95 also sold Edie a lot of CDs, but it would be equally stupid to criticize that. In both cases, Microsoft is providing something entertaining that demonstrates some benefit of the operating system.
- ctrl-j 10y agoSure, but I told windows to uninstall it. Windows reinstalled it. I told it to again, windows did it again. It bothers me. It doesn't bother you. That's fine. Microsoft lost points with me, doesn't mean it has to affect you in any way.
- SippinLean 10y agoMakes sense from a philosophical view, practically it's insignificant. Besides, I thought only the Anniversary Update had CC? How would it get reinstalled?
- AsyncAwait 10y agoSome people don't like having junk they are not using on their computers, even if they 'never see it again', it's all about being in control of your own computer, (as much as possible, that is).