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In Ubuntu I turn off motd ads, in Windows I turn off this stuff, it doesn't come back, I only remember it exists when I see the outrage journalism headlines. I

In Ubuntu I turn off motd ads, in Windows I turn off this stuff, it doesn't come back, I only remember it exists when I see the outrage journalism headlines. I don't see why more people don't just take the steps to remove annoyances.

rolph 1y ago
the problem is MS keeps taking steps to resurrect those annoyances.
bearjaws 1y ago
You can plug your ears and close your eyes, but Microsoft is becoming increasingly adversarial to their customers. It's clear they want to remove local accounts and tie everything to O365. My mom (68 yo) recently got a Windows update that then prompted her to backup her stuff. I had disabled all this and used Win11 debloat previously. OneDrive only had 5gb of storage and prompted her to upgrade. She thought she got hacked because it was asking for money. Then when I went to turn it off it warned me that I might suffer data loss disabling one drive. Which is a story that we have seen play out many times. Sure enough I backed everything up to an external drive, and when I disabled OneDrive the files were totally gone. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5309251/why-did-i-lose-files-after-turning-off-onedrive-sy https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5309251/... https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1ef8pgr/one_drive_wiped_my_entire_desktop_when_i_disabled/ https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1ef8pgr/one_dr... https://www.elevenforum.com/t/i-tried-to-disable-onedrive-lost-almost-all-my-desktop-items.28213/ https://www.elevenforum.com/t/i-tried-to-disable-onedrive-lo... So sure, you can get around it, but there are going to be hundreds of millions of other people who won't.
thescriptkiddie 1y ago
i have uninstalled onedrive at least 6 times on one computer. i never intentionally installed it
II2II 1y ago
I don't know if it is still true, but I noticed a difference in the behaviour of Home and Professional editions a number of years back. Home was definitely more agressive. Then there was a recent reinstall of Windows. The One Drive backup popup came up, but didn't give me an option to say no. It only allowed me to delay the decision by a week or a month.
olyjohn 1y ago
Oh please. The Ubuntu thing isnt even anywhere close. Also you know that there is more than one Linux distro, so nice try justifying it.

rolph 1y ago

the problem is MS keeps taking steps to resurrect those annoyances.

bearjaws 1y ago

You can plug your ears and close your eyes, but Microsoft is becoming increasingly adversarial to their customers. It's clear they want to remove local accounts and tie everything to O365. My mom (68 yo) recently got a Windows update that then prompted her to backup her stuff. I had disabled all this and used Win11 debloat previously. OneDrive only had 5gb of storage and prompted her to upgrade. She thought she got hacked because it was asking for money. Then when I went to turn it off it warned me that I might suffer data loss disabling one drive. Which is a story that we have seen play out many times. Sure enough I backed everything up to an external drive, and when I disabled OneDrive the files were totally gone. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5309251/why-did-i-lose-files-after-turning-off-onedrive-sy https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5309251/... https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1ef8pgr/one_drive_wiped_my_entire_desktop_when_i_disabled/ https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1ef8pgr/one_dr... https://www.elevenforum.com/t/i-tried-to-disable-onedrive-lost-almost-all-my-desktop-items.28213/ https://www.elevenforum.com/t/i-tried-to-disable-onedrive-lo... So sure, you can get around it, but there are going to be hundreds of millions of other people who won't.

thescriptkiddie 1y ago

i have uninstalled onedrive at least 6 times on one computer. i never intentionally installed it

II2II 1y ago

I don't know if it is still true, but I noticed a difference in the behaviour of Home and Professional editions a number of years back. Home was definitely more agressive. Then there was a recent reinstall of Windows. The One Drive backup popup came up, but didn't give me an option to say no. It only allowed me to delay the decision by a week or a month.

olyjohn 1y ago

Oh please. The Ubuntu thing isnt even anywhere close. Also you know that there is more than one Linux distro, so nice try justifying it.