• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Windows is not “fine” aside from all the non-UI stuff, they’re UI is annoying and slow to me, they moved things behind extra clicks/commands to make it “clean”- stuff I actually use.

    And then there’s the whole tracking usage to drop adds in your notification thing… which is a privacy nightmare.

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      1 year ago

      I mean I’m cheering for Linux adoption too, but I’ve never received an ad beyond the initial install crapware app stubs. I do a sweep on the system settings, clean the junk, and I’m off to the races.

      For the unsuspecting users, the privacy concerns are quite bad though.

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          1 year ago

          I havent had that happen, either - between 6 machines I manage and about the same number of reinstalls over the years, from 10 rtm to present 22H2 (or whatever its up to now); I’ve heard the claim by many, but my evidence is nil.

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        1 year ago

        I keep seeing ads in my notifications on my windows installation for windows store items or bing.

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          1 year ago

          Out of curiosity, do you have a screenshot? Unless I have always been the B/control group in A/B testing or something, it sounds super weird.

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            1 year ago

            No, I only boot into windows when I game, so its been a couple days since I’ve gotten one of the notifications.

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              1 year ago

              That’s not the notification tray, though? I mean bleh but you have to go searching for that, and it is somewhat relevant given that most users are logged into their MS account, and this is the accounts settings page… am I missing something?

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        1 year ago

        isn’t the windows search bar a giant always on ad for edge and Bing?

        also windows advertises a lot of their cloud/subscription services in notifications and settings to me

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          1 year ago

          I suppose - I always disable it as part of my initial setup steps, I have actually never used it.

          I’ve only seen shilling for 360 in the account panel, though. Never in the notification tray.

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      1 year ago

      +1

      i have to use microshite crap every day.
      It outdoes oracle at generating curse words.
      and it gets worse. i’d take windows 2000 or nt4 over whatever shit they force on me at work.

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          1 year ago

          XP was a disaster, security-wise. Vista was better conceptually but the tech was undercooked and win7 was basically a re-skin of vista plus some extra maturity due to time.

          Then, there’s the entirety of the situation around those releases. Microsoft was so mismanaged under Ballmer that even though Windows 7 was maybe their best OS, it completely missed the smartphone revolution and set them back about a decade until they could be re-spun as a cloud technologies company.

          Imagine how huge they’d be if they had successfully leveraged their desktop and business dominance to force their way on top of the mobile world.

          Tl:dr Win7 was both Microsoft’s best and worst product of all time.