If you are sticking to Windows 10 because it has fewer annoyances than Windows 11, especially in the Start menu, we have bad news for you.
  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 day ago

    Seriously though, in W11 it’s super easy to disable this shit.

    Start Menu:
    Personalization > Start > “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.” (OFF)

    Lock Screen:
    Personalization > Lock Screen > Change from “Weather ‘and more’” to “None”.

    Search:
    Settings  > Search  > Permissions & History > Turn it ALL off. Cloud, Work/School, etc.

  • @[email protected]
    117•3 months ago

    They figured if they make Win 10 just as bad as Win 11 people will finally switch over.

    Obligatory Linux plug.

    • @[email protected]
      23•3 months ago

      I migrated the day before yesterday. A company can only feed you hot logs, straight from the factory, for so many years before you tire of pretending the taste is acceptable.

      • @[email protected]
        20•3 months ago

        Your laptop must be an exception. I’ve installed Linux Mint on an old laptop that couldn’t even run Windows 10 properly and it just worked with zero hiccup.

          • chingadera
            1•3 months ago

            i chose the nuke it strategy, just burned it to the ground from frustration, then eventually made it to bazzite

      • TheCookingSenpai
        9•3 months ago

        I assume this is either a meme or a very unique situation. “Not working” is too generic, if you can provide more details we could even help

          • @[email protected]
            11•3 months ago

            I’m not familiar with the brand, but general ideas that come to mind to troubleshoot are:

            • Disable secureboot if enabled. Understanding you’ll lose that security feature of course.
            • See if there’s an option to mark your storage as removable in the installer (–removable flag in grub iirc). My (pretty old) motherboard does not seem to respect attempts to add uefi entities but it happily boots off a “removable” uefi install.
          • Nik282000
            2•3 months ago

            I had a similar problem with an NUC where the install would work but was unbootable after. In my case the USB showed up as both a BIOS and UEFI boot device and the mobo was picking the legacy mode. This made the install a legacy boot install which was not bootable.

            To fix it I had to manually choose to boot the install USB’s UEFI mode.

      • @[email protected]
        2•3 months ago

        Super weird. My laptop had a new enough GPU that Windows didn’t even have proper drivers yet and it worked out of the box on Linux.

      • @[email protected]
        1•3 months ago

        When you say Any Linux, are you referring to debian derivatives only? Have you tried rpm based? I had same issue with one laptop. However Bazzite offers images based on hardware type so one of those might work

    • Nik282000
      14•3 months ago

      You would think they make enough on their corporate licenses to cover the cost of home users and whatever piracy still exists.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 months ago

      Smartest users are already using OpenShell and don’t have anything to fear, at least from this change… for now…

  • Nik282000
    15•3 months ago

    God damnit. I have a W10 drive left because SteamVR is still a little clunky on Debian.

    I really hope valve comes out with a new release of SteamOS for desktops, the Steam Deck version is damned near flawless.

      • Nik282000
        5•3 months ago

        It won’t make them any more money so it’s not like there is a financial incentive for them, but they do occasionally do things just because they aren’t assholes.

      • Fubarberry
        5•3 months ago

        A steam deck beta update from the past week or two that they were working on adding support for the ROG Ally. The verge asked valve about it, and they confirmed they’re actively working on making it support other handheld PCs.

    • @[email protected]
      1•3 months ago

      OpenShell is your friend then. I haven’t seen the Windows 8 or 10 menu in years except when using the text launcher to start OpenShell after I closed it.

      • Nik282000
        1•3 months ago

        In 7 and 8 I really liked the Gnome-like ability to just type the first few letters of a program and hit enter. OpenShell looks like I’m not the only one.

  • kindenough
    13•3 months ago

    Thank you kindley Microsoft, It is what I crave! I need it like the Microplastics I got installed in my ballsack.

  • @[email protected]
    9•3 months ago

    I think the various debloat scripts (Chris Titus etc.) should take care of this.

    Obviously this remedy is just harm reduction.

    Going forward I will be maining various Linux distros and using Wine/Proton compatibility, or TinyWin10 on a VM, for any tasks that absolutely require Windows.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 months ago

      I checked the website, so it’s like a micro scripted app compilation?? Does the thing is a run/tweak then close, or does it needs to reside as a background service/task?

      • @[email protected]
        2•3 months ago

        You start with a fresh Windows install and run the playbook on it. It’s practically a one time script

  • @[email protected]
    3•3 months ago

    Geez, MS, it’s a place to filter a list with a few keystrokes and/or click a link or punch enter. It’s such shit ad real estate you’re just pissing off people about to discover nobara or this for nothing

  • Lucy :3
    2•3 months ago

    At least I could install Windows 10 in QEMU. I think I’ll go back to Win7 for VMs then.