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[–] [email protected] 325 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
PS> get-appxpackage *teams* | remove-appxpackage
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand that your comment makes sense in context, but wash your mouth out with soap for speaking such vile heresy

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

PowerShell is one of the best things MS has done. Turning a rich, OO environment into a CLI was smart.

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

Kind of horrifying to use when you're used to a unixy shell though!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Perhaps, but the same goes the other way. I'll stand by PowerShell even though windows is hit and miss at best.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If lemmy had gold I'd give you some

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm glad there's no gold. I'll still tell you what I told people about buying gold. Go make a donation to a charity instead.

I like fsf.org, saf.org, or gunowners.org

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

You could always uninstall Teams and still can, regularly via the Settings app.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, if you have Teams uninstalled, hitting Windows key + c will conveniently install it again. Yay!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Very few people bother removing all the default apps in the first place.

The type of high caliber nerd to care about a pre installed app that sits dormant and uses a few MB of storage probably already uses remote desktop often enough they'd want to keep it.

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

I would have used it but it's only available on Pro/Enterprise versions. But that led me to finding Parsec so all ended well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remote Desktop App vs Remote Desktop Connection.

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

The remote desktop app isn't installed by default. At least I've never seen it installed by default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I can't imagine they mean MSTSC. The RD App sucks ballz

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I agree with that “and”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Great. Now give them a couple more years to learn they shouldn't be installed by default in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think the list of "apps" (AKA junk) people would actually like to deinstall is quite a bit longer.

How about uninstalling edge? It is only needed to download Firefox, anyway.

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

What the hell is wrong with remote desktop and the camera app?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing. But having the option to uninstall them like any other app is nice for whenever it might be relevant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe someday they'll discover checkboxes and use them to not have to install these apps in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"What's a checkbox? Oh, you mean that thing we use to trick users into 'consenting' to telemetry?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think I've got it! So on install, we make a checkbox that says:

  • do not install web search in the start menu, but also I consent to Microsoft collecting creepy levels of data about me
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sure took them a while, but they seem to finally allow folks to personalize their experience. I'm not going to complain about it, though – this is definitely a good change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not far enough. It'd be lovely if I could scale Windows down to almost 7 gigs or so (what windows 10 is, probably should be lower) But the thing is Windows in general is just a bloated piece of crap that continues to grow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, so of the five apps they will "let" you uninstall now, one makes little sense to have in the consumer edition (remote desktop - which is effectively enabled in Pro only) and one is getting deprecated (Cortana - bye bye!).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The remote desktop they are talking about is the client app used to connect to remote systems.

The remote desktop feature that's limited to Pro is the ability for the system to receive remote connections.