Comment on Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise

• 4am@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t even put /Users fully onto a second drive without hacks that potentially break Windows Update because they can’t even be arsed to use their own environment variables or follow mounts.

  “Reformatting huh? Hope you had a backup of all your documents, lol. Hey why not try OneDrive only $199 a year bro”

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • wmassingham@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There used to be a native tool called Windows Easy Transfer, but it was dropped in Windows 10 in favor of third-party tools like PCmover and transwiz. There is still Microsoft’s USMT, but that’s designed as an enterprise tool and I think it depends on MECM.

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      • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Reaper948@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, there’s transfer wiz and profile wiz that’ll do it, but not any builtin tools unfortunately.

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• bearwithastick@feddit.ch ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What hardcore Linux users don’t seem to really get is this: The vast majority of people who need to use computers simply do not care about anything you just said. They absolutely don’t. They simply want to press a button to boot the device, use the apps they need and maybe even play a game and that’s it. That is what Windows does for them.

  The average user is overwhelmed when the desktop icons have been moved.

  I love Linux and it is on a great way to being used by a wider audience and it’s great to provide the freedom it does. But it still has its quirks that makes it too hard to use for 95% of users.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But the average user is not going to uninstall their bootloader to begin with. We were talking about power users. As a power user it’s nice to be able to do whatever you want.

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• wmassingham@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, if you boot a Windows recovery image, you can do that: …microsoft.com/…/use-bootrec-exe-in-the-windows-r…

  Similarly, in Linux, I’ve seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the best course of action.

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  • DarkenLM@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It's almost like every OS will have issues if you start fucking up core parts of it, who would have guessed?

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• popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep I’m well aware. I jumped on the Linux train awhile ago. It’s so freeing.

  I remember when you could uninstall Internet Explorer on your own as a regular ass user. Now? Get rekt idiot you’re stuck with Edge on your system and we’re gonna regularly reset it as your default browser.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve not had win 10 default to another browser (edge) one single time in the five or so years I have used it.

    I get the windows hate, but I also hate seeing bs about shit that doesn’t happen.

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    • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve had it happen on Windows 11 after the last major feature update. :(

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