I am on Windows 11. The UI has been more consistent than 10 ever was and I am curious where the ads are.
Comment on Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Let’s see. Its full of ads, spyware and the ui is a complete mess.
I can’t imagine why people a digging in there heals
Burrit0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thrift3499@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The ‘news’ thing in the taskbar counts, I think. As does the recommended apps and preinstalled candy crush. It’s looking less and less like a professional tool nowadays.
Burrit0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can hide the news button on the taskbar and I uninstalled all of those extra, pre-installed, bloat apps. My taskbar looks just as clean as it has for the past 20 years.
firala@feddit.de 8 months ago
It should not be necessary to do that in the first place.
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Tbf that’s all in the consumer editions.
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even a “pro” install on Windows 10 pre-configured via Rufus will try to install fucking Candy Crush. Professional software my ass.
Ubuntu at least has a very clear “what you need it for” question in its setup, and extended support for older versions for corps. Seems like companies may actually be better off on Linux these days unless you they’re using Adobe products.
puck2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hate that I can’t have labels in the taskbar. Really slows down my workflow
Burrit0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you mean these taskbar labels?
puck2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hooray!!!
pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Too many features that I use daily as a Sysadmin are missing to consider w11 as anything more than a PITA currently.
At home my PC hardware is fully capable but my HDD will need a reformat, so I either rebuild my system from scratch (not gonna happen any time soon) or fork out for yet another HDD and transfer tools.
So it’s an imposed cost for little benefit and a whole mountain of inconvenience.
I literally disabled my TPM chip to prevent w11 force installing itself. Management forked out for a new fleet of w11 machines and staff are straight up refusing to move off older slower PC’s to avoid w11.
W11 needs a solid 12 months of re-adding existing features to be worth looking sideways at.
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You must be on win7 or older.
pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Ywhy? Your comment makes no sense.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I bought a new laptop that came with 11, I haven’t had any super annoying issues… Actually the preinstalled Samsung apps are more annoying than anything OS related… But to be fair, when I was setting it up, I looked into how to do it without connecting to a Microsoft account - it’s possible but takes a little work. I wonder if that is the difference…
Burrit0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My personal computer is a Windows 11 desktop and I performed a clean install when I got it. So now I don’t have any pre-installed apps from the manufacturer. I did use a Microsoft account to sign in, and then just removed or customized whatever I didn’t like
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honestly, I think, like the article says, the hardware issue is the biggest hurdle. People use Facebook, after all, and it is full of ads and its UI is also a complete mess.