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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by shp0ngle on Friday September 25, 2020 @03:29AM (#24587452)
10 has tons of under-the-hood improvements that are great, honestly.

However, it also has a ton of advertisments everywhere, and those annoying auto-installing apps.

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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by bayindirh on Friday September 25, 2020 @05:31AM (#24588134)
I don't use Windows day to day anymore but, my family has Windows 10 and I manage it.

When I sit in the front of the computer, I feel like I'm inside the big space ship in the Wall-e. All the advertisements, forced consumerism and everything.

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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by beagle3 on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:55AM (#24588834)
I had run tr0nscript on the computer I support for family a few years ago, and that made the experience almost reasonable.

I know tr0nscript has fallen out of favor since, don’t know the exact reasons. I did need to fix the hosts file to allow windows to get security updates - but otherwise, that machine still feels as usable as win7 except for the degraded shell (which could be replaced with classic shell, I guess, but I didn’t bother).

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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by bayindirh on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:42AM (#24589078)
> I know tr0nscript has fallen out of favor since, don’t know the exact reasons.

Looked to what it's doing in every step [0]. It's a bit overzealous while doing what it's doing. Also, its default are not the most sensible ones so, if you're not running it after installation it may change the behavior of the system quite a bit.

Removal of metro apps, resetting IE, purging %APP_DATA% storage, removal of some VCS snapshots... It's a thermonuclear option to take. To be able to run in a milder, sensible manner needs a lot of tuning. So it's not practical.

[0]: https://github.com/bmrf/tron/blob/master/README.md#full-tron...

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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by stjohnswarts on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:10AM (#24596353)
I really don't know what people are talking about ads? My win 10 has zero ads on it. I turned off all telemetry (i think) with a couple of programs dedicated to doing that. Maybe my pi-hole is blocking the ads?
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