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>it's been equally gross and amusing. How? A domain joined Windows laptop should have GPOs to remove the ads and shit also SCCM/Intune software center / compa

>it's been equally gross and amusing. How? A domain joined Windows laptop should have GPOs to remove the ads and shit also SCCM/Intune software center / company portal to install the apps you need.

Godel_unicode 5y ago
You're giving the average IT department far, far too much credit.
- rejectfinite 5y ago
  I work in one that does this so maybe? Having some kind of Windows 10 "golden image" with SCCM/Intune/PDQ for apps is fairly standard.
isoprophlex 5y ago
Gross because the lock screen insists on serving me dumb ass photos with """interesting""" factoids, in an attempt to ??? Gross because I clicked somewhere by accident and the bottom right of my screen was filled with news snippets and some MS ads. Hilarious because I wanted to change the (default ?) UI scaling from 150 to 100%; there was no obvious way to just type "scaling" somewhere and get to the point, instead I navigated three layers deep through the settings panel, which had three different visual design styles. I read all the windows design snark on HN, without really knowing what is what... turns out it REALLY is as bad as people make it out to be, haha.
- alar44 5y ago
  You can change your lock screen to whatever you want. I don't care what system I'm on, if I wanted to change display settings, I wouldn't search for scaling, I'd search for display settings. I'm failing to see anything of substance here other than "I didn't immediately know how to do something."
- rejectfinite 5y ago
  > Gross because the lock screen insists on serving me dumb ass photos with """interesting""" factoids, in an attempt to ??? > Gross because I clicked somewhere by accident and the bottom right of my screen was filled with news snippets and some MS ads. Yea these suck but you can turn them off. In lock screen settings, and the 2nd one if you right click on it you can turn it off.
Johanx64 5y ago
Coming from win7 to win10 ltsc is still pretty gross and a downgrade overall. The metro UI... that has to be the ugliest shit I've seen on desktop. And I've seen my share of ugly UIs on Linux. And the responsiveness/perf is down the drain too... on a new PC with fast nvme Calling back home on every other thing probably slows things down too.

>it's been equally gross and amusing. How? A domain joined Windows laptop should have GPOs to remove the ads and shit also SCCM/Intune software center / company portal to install the apps you need.

Godel_unicode 5y ago

You're giving the average IT department far, far too much credit.

rejectfinite 5y ago
I work in one that does this so maybe? Having some kind of Windows 10 "golden image" with SCCM/Intune/PDQ for apps is fairly standard.

isoprophlex 5y ago

Gross because the lock screen insists on serving me dumb ass photos with """interesting""" factoids, in an attempt to ??? Gross because I clicked somewhere by accident and the bottom right of my screen was filled with news snippets and some MS ads. Hilarious because I wanted to change the (default ?) UI scaling from 150 to 100%; there was no obvious way to just type "scaling" somewhere and get to the point, instead I navigated three layers deep through the settings panel, which had three different visual design styles. I read all the windows design snark on HN, without really knowing what is what... turns out it REALLY is as bad as people make it out to be, haha.

alar44 5y ago
You can change your lock screen to whatever you want. I don't care what system I'm on, if I wanted to change display settings, I wouldn't search for scaling, I'd search for display settings. I'm failing to see anything of substance here other than "I didn't immediately know how to do something."
rejectfinite 5y ago
> Gross because the lock screen insists on serving me dumb ass photos with """interesting""" factoids, in an attempt to ??? > Gross because I clicked somewhere by accident and the bottom right of my screen was filled with news snippets and some MS ads. Yea these suck but you can turn them off. In lock screen settings, and the 2nd one if you right click on it you can turn it off.

Johanx64 5y ago

Coming from win7 to win10 ltsc is still pretty gross and a downgrade overall. The metro UI... that has to be the ugliest shit I've seen on desktop. And I've seen my share of ugly UIs on Linux. And the responsiveness/perf is down the drain too... on a new PC with fast nvme Calling back home on every other thing probably slows things down too.