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I've spent a few hours reading and installing random software I never heard of before to get my windows machine into the basic state of "I can boot it without g

by herbst 1y ago

I've spent a few hours reading and installing random software I never heard of before to get my windows machine into the basic state of "I can boot it without getting heavily triggered" - Half of each boot time was wasted for a copilot 360 dialog. On every fucking boot, no copilot no office installed. Or rather copilot installed itself without notice and started to spam me - In several places the OS would show me "news" like death messages, war updates and economy details. Definitely far from a productive environment and honestly heavily triggering, I don't read news anywhere but my PC is full of it and there is no option to disable? What about kids? - I have updates or a broken system about every second time I boot the PC. I know it's because I just cut the power, but I hate when it asks 3 times if I want to actually shut down (and then still breaks it, or never actually shuts down) - I constantly end up in a variety of login screens that want me to login to an Microsoft account I don't have and want - There are soooo many ads. I've been on Linux for years, instead of traditional TV I almost always stream with ad blocker. The country I live in isn't plastered with Ads either. But this shithole of operating system is. It literally pops up ad notification above apps on default. If anyone wonders most problems where solved with "ShutUp10" others with chatGpt and regedit. It was actually pretty hard when you have no idea about this OS and it's dark patterns. On my Linux machines I don't even change the wallpaper, but windows defaults are unbearable and upright productivity killers

greenavocado 1y ago
If you're willing to take the risk and trust the developer there is a fully prepared Windows distribution called Windows 11 24H2.3775 16in1 x64 - Integral Edition 2025.4.9 on zone94 Their other distributions are very good as well, especially for Windows XP because they bundle a lot of important drivers for old software to work correctly
- herbst 1y ago
  I am using windows only for rekordbox. I tried a few like that like tiny10 but in the end I would always run into driver issues.
hbn 1y ago
On top of the news headlines being shoved in your face everywhere in Windows, they do the same with stocks, showing you trade values of random stocks in various places which I can't help but find hilarious. I think they're trying to emulate Apple who has had stocks integration by default for years, including being alongside the other pre-installed apps like SMS and Mail on the first iPhone. I imagine Apple did it to cement themselves as a high-class lifestyle brand, even though I'm sure there was never a time where most iPhone users were doing a lot of day trading. I wonder what percentage of Windows users rely on the stock ticker in the start menu though...

by herbst 1y ago

greenavocado 1y ago

If you're willing to take the risk and trust the developer there is a fully prepared Windows distribution called Windows 11 24H2.3775 16in1 x64 - Integral Edition 2025.4.9 on zone94 Their other distributions are very good as well, especially for Windows XP because they bundle a lot of important drivers for old software to work correctly

herbst 1y ago
I am using windows only for rekordbox. I tried a few like that like tiny10 but in the end I would always run into driver issues.

hbn 1y ago

On top of the news headlines being shoved in your face everywhere in Windows, they do the same with stocks, showing you trade values of random stocks in various places which I can't help but find hilarious. I think they're trying to emulate Apple who has had stocks integration by default for years, including being alongside the other pre-installed apps like SMS and Mail on the first iPhone. I imagine Apple did it to cement themselves as a high-class lifestyle brand, even though I'm sure there was never a time where most iPhone users were doing a lot of day trading. I wonder what percentage of Windows users rely on the stock ticker in the start menu though...