The people who use tools like this are in the minority. The majority (probably the vast majority) of people use Windows as it is out of the box.
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s good that these tools exist, but it’s so frustrating that it’s a constant cat and mouse game of Microsoft trying to make their products as cumbersome and shit as possible and the community trying to salvage Windows to the best of their ability.
At what point do OEMs just say actually nah, I’m tired of you making our laptops frustrating to use?
At what point do they say fuck it I’m going the Valve route and moving away from a company that wants to undermine me?
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 10 months ago
TheBat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The number for people I have seen with search box still enabled in taskbar tells me that’s true.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Everyone. Everywhere.
It blows my mind, but then I realise that we here on Lemmy are the 1% of IT users.
lud@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah right‽ Why do people keep the full search box enabled? It takes up so much space. I usually switch to the search button.
I even see quite a lot of people in IT (not talking about tech or devs) that keep it enabled.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I think it’s one of those things that just becomes mentally invisible after a while. Like Microsoft slowly just drops in a new bar here, a stock ticker there, and there’s a point where a majority of folks are like “…Was that always there?” and don’t bother hunting for a way to turn it off like we do lol.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know.
asbestos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
View using their PC as a chore anyway, and so power through the annoyances
Damn, good one.
TheBat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
it’s a constant cat and mouse game
It’s not just Microsoft. Never heard of always on DRM? Or government making it difficult for people to receive assistance (disability or homeless)?
TravisKelce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At what point do OEMs just say actually nah, I’m tired of you making our laptops frustrating to use?
LTT put out an (surprisingly insightful) video about ChromeOS and how it’s kind of secretly spreading Linux. I don’t think its crazy to say that in 5-10 years ChromeOS or similar will be the default and Windows will be a premium add on or something.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
“premium”
TravisKelce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
lol honestly maybe competition will force them to reverse the ehittification of their product
phillaholic@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I doubt it. Google will squander it away one way or another. It could work on a technical level, I’ve been using flex since before Google bought it for family members, it’s just poorly advertised and explained.
Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
It’s google, they’ll just stop working on it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At what point do OEMs just say actually nah, I’m tired of you making our laptops frustrating to use?
You’re under the impression that most people care about the horrible parts of windows?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They do.
Enough to do much about it, other than buy a MacBook if they have money to burn? Nah.
But enough to use their PC less and try to do as much as possible on their phone/iPad? Honestly, yeah, I think so.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is your point that you think laptop and desktop makers could increase sales by ditching windows? That feels like suicide to me and I am a Linux lover. At what point do they do that is what you asked. When they’re desperate to take a risk, if ever, would be my guess
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be fair, Window$ has been bloat since the very day M$ stole it from its Unix roots, and Linux is everything that the OS could’ve been were it not run by money-grubbin’ cringelords.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unix roots? Lol wtf
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like an ageist to me. As far as I knew, Microsoft’s first product was msdos but I guess I’m just too unintelligent to know better
joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org 10 months ago
uhh they will include copilot key in keyboard in new laptops...
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Very useful, just like my dedicated Cortana key. 🤡