The ads themselves are also particularly egregious masquerading often as news.<p>Very many times I’ve seen “BREAKING NEWS” only to click in and see something about some celebrity getting divorced or some other tabloid garbage like that.<p>Can’t believe this is the flagship product of a $3T business sometimes. And it’s such an easy fix too.
Didn't they already? IIRC they also installed Candy Crush and Spotify without my consent. Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry used most of my disk i/o for an hour every day, seemingly cataloguing everything I have installed. I will never ever use Windows for professional purposes, they are dead to me except for use as a glorified Steam launcher.
It wasn't that long ago I was using tools like Spybot and Ad-aware to remove things that were considered malicious. Now it's built right into the OS and browsers.<p>"Progress"
Shout out to StartAllBack, the replacement Start menu. It started back when Microsoft had abandoned the Start menu altogether. These days Windows 11 Start is more or less OK but shoving ads into it definitely is user hostile.<p>$5 per machine gets you a nice third party Start menu. It's more flexible too; these days I mostly use it because it lets you move the taskbar to the left edge where it belongs on an ultrawidescreen monitor.
The solution is obvious: pin Steam to the taskbar, not to the start menu, as well as Chrome.
Put a shortcut on desktop to shutdown the computer, then never use the OS for anything else.<p>I recently put Kubuntu on my desktop and I've been way happier.<p>What a depressing ending for that OS
<a href="https://universal-blue.org" rel="nofollow">https://universal-blue.org</a><p>Using the Bazzite image has replaced Windows for me. Basically everything works.
I wonder, who is even making these decisions?<p>Who is windows for? Is it for gamers? Is it for office workers that were raised on windows at school? Do people just use it because it comes preinstalled on their computer?<p>Why would anyone with a modicum of self respect use this system any longer? Gone are the days when you had to be a nerd to want to use something else, when dislike of windows was about how Microsoft behaved in their commercial dealings, when it was an ideological decision. It is a practical matter now, people wholly uninterested in tinkering with their computer are getting sick of it at this point.<p>An operating system is supposed to get out of your way and let you operate the machine.
An upgrade to windows 11 is a big downgrade. Whatever systems I have windows 10 (just one) I’ll keep at that. Will steer clear of anything Windows or Microsoft in the future.
[dupe]<p>Lots of discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018948">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018948</a>