Comment on Why is Windows 11 so annoying?
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Windows 11 comes in many flavors. But mostly Enterprise and consumer (Home, and Pro). If you have Enterprise your company pays a subscription for the ability to control and mostly to turn off most of the bullshit telemetry and ads. Consumer versions are pretty much just ad supported OSs. Yep, even if you paid for it. Ads are everywhere.
I own a consumer version (home) and I’ve never once seen an ad. They did turn on copilot once, but I disabled it in less than a minute and I’ve never seen it since.
This said, windows 11 just sucks compared to 10. They moved the start bar to the center to copy Mac (I moved that back ages ago, though). They also stripped all the great start menu tiles away, so it’s just kind of… barren now.
I just don’t see any significant way 11 is better than 10. That’s why it sucks.
Less than a minute? Your wife must love you
There’s so many things that are ads it’s impossible to keep track. I usually use this software to modify all the crap in Windows. www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
I own a consumer version (home) and I’ve never once seen an ad.
Really? I’m on Win10 and constantly get notifications in the bottom right about adobe products and stuff
I work on IT support and all of our clients use enterprise. It’s not just the Ads.
Microsoft has slowly been dumbing down it’s apps and the OS. Removing features that where good for office users.
Access to settings is a joke. It’s a bad OS. I fell like they’ve gone backwards, again.
My pet peeve right now is why can’t the taskbar be placed on the sides? It had that functionality before.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 5 months ago
Enterprise / Pro don’t need subscriptions. There are subscriptions, but you can also purchase a straight up license
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Didn’t know that, do you know of a link to where I can buy a license?
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 months ago
pirate don’t buy; its a rental anyway
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 5 months ago
You can get Pro from Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/…/B0BDRW28CW/ There are lots of places to purchase Pro keys that are cheaper though. I find the cheaper keys to be a little sketchy though.
Enterprise is for volume purchases only, so there won’t be a link I can share.