New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by komali2 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:37PM (#14317920)

They don't necessarily make it easy to turn off all the weird ad-type-stuff, but they don't make it impossible either. A quick tour through settings on install can get rid of it all.

There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. You have to do esoteric shit in the registry editor to disable this. It infuriates me.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by anonymfus on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:29PM (#14318351)

>There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them.

That was fixed in Creators Update: it now remembers uninstalled default applications.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by komali2 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:52PM (#14318547)

I'm not 100% on this, but I'm fairly certain I wiped and reinstalled Windows on my surface after the creator's update, and I still had this issue.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by dlp211 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @05:38PM (#14319756)

You wiped, how would the OS remember?

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by komali2 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:38PM (#14320093)

As in, after I wiped, I uninstalled Minecraft, and within 5 minutes it was reinstalling.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by cryptarch on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:59PM (#14318117)

Are you for real? Is this really the world most of my friends live in?

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