Pays 100$ for windows 11 pro expecting to not see targeted advertising.

“Play Candy Crush on the Windows App Store Now!” ad baked into the Lock Screen ffs why

I'm sure this is intended to block software thst could do things like remove Copilot and all the OS level advertising they keep populating windows with.

The only update I want is going back to Windows 7 anyway. This crap they call a modern operating system is inferior to Linux and mac os.

I tried the Official Windows 11 start menu. I had disabled showing "recommended apps" in the settings. This hid the icons, but not the section. So, whenever I opened the start menu, the entire bottom half was a section that said "enable recommended apps to show them here."

That's when I installed Start11 (I also bought StartAllBack, but I preferred Start11) and never looked back.

At this point I've just abandoned the start menu all together. PowerToys Run has effectively become how I launch anything that isn't on the taskbar, tied to one of the buttons on my mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Everything search on a different shortcut replaces the built-in search.

Of course that's just how I cope on my mandatory-Windows 11 work laptop. At home (and I know this is almost a meme at this point), I'm slowly getting myself accustomed to Linux alongside Windows 10 until that's no longer feasible.

So it's just an added feature of StartAllBack - no more updating!

This isn't normal Windows Updates. These are warnings for OS upgrades as Windows Insiders upgrade to new preview builds of the OS.

Meh, I don't care, I'd much rather have startallback than updates as it's the only thing that makes that windows box usable.

WTF is the screen scaling set to on that laptop?