Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

• InfiniteHench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Can I ask how you got Win11? And are we talking MS feature bloat or third party stuff? I had Micro Center build my PC so it didn’t come from a manufacturer. There doesn’t seem to be any third party bloat, besides the occasional fucking ad for an app in the Start menu.

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  • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The ads for apps, Xbox games, trial versions of Office preinstalled, the minesweeper and solitaire collection that are preinstalled but actually ad supported or non-free, depending on the region spotify/TikTok/Facebook also come preinstalled, “Movies & TV”, Bing/MS News…

    I think all of those count as bloat. I haven’t included Edge because I guess having a browser is a necessity, or copilot/cortana because you said “excluding AI features”.

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    • Thadrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You can turn it off/remove the stuff though. Annoying, but tbh. less work than every time I had to dig into ProtonDB to get some issues resolved.

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