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Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I am on Windows 11. The UI has been more consistent than 10 ever was and I am curious where the ads are.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The 'news' thing in the taskbar counts, I think. As does the recommended apps and preinstalled candy crush. It's looking less and less like a professional tool nowadays.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tbf that's all in the consumer editions.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even a "pro" install on Windows 10 pre-configured via Rufus will try to install fucking Candy Crush. Professional software my ass.

    Ubuntu at least has a very clear "what you need it for" question in its setup, and extended support for older versions for corps. Seems like companies may actually be better off on Linux these days unless you they're using Adobe products.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    You confuse what I meant. In a professional environment, the images should be customized via deployment toolkit. These things should not be in the image at all. But I'll admit I haven't looked at the windows 11 builds but I used to do windows 10 and earlier. Any bloatware et al is taken out before production deployments.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Too many features that I use daily as a Sysadmin are missing to consider w11 as anything more than a PITA currently.

    At home my PC hardware is fully capable but my HDD will need a reformat, so I either rebuild my system from scratch (not gonna happen any time soon) or fork out for yet another HDD and transfer tools.

    So it's an imposed cost for little benefit and a whole mountain of inconvenience.

    I literally disabled my TPM chip to prevent w11 force installing itself. Management forked out for a new fleet of w11 machines and staff are straight up refusing to move off older slower PC's to avoid w11.

    W11 needs a solid 12 months of re-adding existing features to be worth looking sideways at.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I bought a new laptop that came with 11, I haven't had any super annoying issues... Actually the preinstalled Samsung apps are more annoying than anything OS related... But to be fair, when I was setting it up, I looked into how to do it without connecting to a Microsoft account - it's possible but takes a little work. I wonder if that is the difference...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    My personal computer is a Windows 11 desktop and I performed a clean install when I got it. So now I don't have any pre-installed apps from the manufacturer. I did use a Microsoft account to sign in, and then just removed or customized whatever I didn't like

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