I think the key is I simply never interact with the OS outside of opening the search bar or PowerToys Run to type in the program I want to open, clicking on desktop shortcuts, or going into Control Panel. All the places they try to sneak ads in I literally just don’t use because there are other, faster ways to get there.
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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 9 months agoThat’s what confuses me. There are absolutely ads, it’s just fake installed apps. But amount of ads are exactly the same as windows 10. They’re in all the same places, same types (mostly the start menu). Shit you could say 10 has more since that awful edge desktop widget doesn’t exist by default on 11 as far as I’m aware.
Do people just have such deeply debloated windows 10 installs that they’ve forgotten what windows 10 is actually like? Maybe it’s because it’s been 1.5 years without a major update that reinstalls all the garbage automatically?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
My start menu is a glorious thing with zero ads. No programs are listen in those shite block tile things. Removed them all and shrank the start menu to be the same size and feel as ptevious windows versions. In fact, I never even use the start menu for anything anymore but typing CMD.
They killed it for me the day it started searching the web instead of the system. I just navigate to the install folders like I always have years and run programs with the actual exe.
Kadaj21@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Man I’m programmed to just ctrl+r and type cmd lol
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Windows key is 1 less button I need to press
Kadaj21@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Got me there!
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Web search can be disabled with a few registry keys.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Not using it is easier