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[–] [email protected] 422 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Tldr: Remote desktop, Cortana, camera, people app are all getting uninstall buttons.

[–] [email protected] 206 points 1 year ago (10 children)

"uninstalled" ... til the first automatic update πŸ™ƒ

[–] [email protected] 168 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HI! I'm Skype!

uninstall

Hi! I'm Skype!

uninstall

Hi! I'm skype!

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"Are you suuuuure you don't want to use Edge? Are you suuuuure you don't want it to be the default handler for .pdf and .svg files? Are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? Just in case, we'll pin it to your start menu again and put a shortcut to it on your desktop. Just until you're sure."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Apple's starting to get more and more into this. Safari pesters you and nobody wants NEWS/Stocks/AppleTv App, Weather, etc. But you can't uninstall them :(

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Cortana is being killed and replaced with their ChatGPT Bing thing.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does Microsoft hate Halo so much

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

It’s a successful consumer product. Can’t have that under the Microsoft umbrella

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Which is also when they regularly try and get you to mistakenly click a button to make Edge your default browser. Scummy dark patterns.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)
PS> get-appxpackage *teams* | remove-appxpackage
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Why remote desktop? I can understand the rest. But who uninstalls default apps and doesn't use remote desktop?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very few people use remote desktop.

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The more steam deck and proton get games working on linux, the less need I have for this bloated windows.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's truly ridiculous how much Linux gaming leapfrogged with the Steam Deck. I'm contemplating installing a debian partition for my main PC since I don't really play a lot of games that need anti-cheat.

The madlads really did it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yeah gamers are 95% good to switch.

Gamers and microshit have incompetiable values.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

If devs started making anticheat for Linux it would get closer.

If they stopped making launchers it would be easier too.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (26 children)

I'm all for less bloat ware, but come one. The camera app or remote desktop are the least shitty ones. Its borderline to call them even bloatware.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be clear, they seem to be saying that those apps will still be preinstalled. They'll just be easier to uninstall if you want to do so.

"option for the first time to uninstall the Camera app, Cortana app, Photos app, People app, and the Remote Desktop client. "

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Let's cut the crap: it's not that they "realized" nobody wants it -- it's that they've come to accept the blowback against their reputation has gotten too big to outweigh the potential pros of preinstalled bloatware supporting their strategy.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They always knew, they just didn't care.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Im running Windows 11 on my new laptop. Every major update it's like:

  • PLZ LET EDGE BE UR BROWSER
  • BRO PLZ, OFFICE SUBSCRIPTION
  • LOCATION?
  • Let me just install tiktok and FB apps.

My laptop officially supports Ubuntu, think I might make the switch full time. I don't game on my laptop and most of it's use is browser, plex and emails...

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Realized?? They knew all the time, and didn't give a shit.

It's more likely that they have pushed too far, and users are pushing back. They will dial it back a bit, and hope people forget.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That, and stop dumbing down the UI. Gradeschoolers in 1999 could operate windows, it doesn't need to get dumber

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Gradeschoolers, yes.

Boomers are still struggling even with the modern, simplified UI. They would likely continue to struggle if we had Idiocracy style UI on things (big, bright colored buttons with pictures of what they do).

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They've always realized, they've just never cared.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is all so foreign to me now. I'm not forced to keep anything on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (17 children)

How to tell if someone uses Linux? Don't worry they will tell you.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I use Arch BTW. Sorry couldn't help myself.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Linux and FOSS circlejerk will never end. I'm saying this as someone that uses Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A vegan, Linux using crossfitter walks up to you. What do they tell you about first?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't give a shit, I'll use other programs to uninstall whatever I want.

Call me when I can use a vertical task bar. Until then, I'm sticking with win10.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (14 children)

a beta build of Windows 11 in the Canary Channel includes the option for the first time to uninstall the Camera app, Cortana app, Photos app, People app, and the Remote Desktop client.

Still no Microsoft edge though...

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

it's crazy to think that you can't just uninstall some apps in the first place even though it would be technologically possible

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is there a way to disable the ads, news and recommendations yet? Until then I'm not upgrading.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the integrated AI spying on you that is real concern

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait: They are saying you can remove the Remote Desktop client? You mean the client you cannot use to connect to a Windows Home license because you cannot run remote desktop without a higher license?

Interesting flex there Microsoft.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Good, maybe in two or three more years Windows 11 will be useable. Right on time for Windows 12 to roll out and drag Microsoft users back to the Stone Age again.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If I could also get the ability to disable internet search results from the start menu that'd be great. So sick of looking for a file or app, hitting enter a second too soon, and having Edge slowly eat my resources to display a Bing search result that I never wanted.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm a CG artist and I dual boot Fedora on my workstation and run it on my file/license server. I'm very familiar with Linux and it's great for a lot of things.

A ton of my software runs much better than on windows and I would stay in it if I could, but unfortunately I have software needs that don't run on Linux and can't work in a VM in full capacity.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Windows 11 Pro, now with NOTHING installed. Windows 11 Pro plus, now with firefox pre-installed so you can clame your system never had edge on it!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (13 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They always knew. When the time comes they'll force everything back with even more bloatware and even less freedom to choose because that's the corpo way. This is just another long-term power grab.

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