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Re:Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer by hhh on Monday March 14, 2022 @03:39PM (#30677176)
I used Windows 11 Home recently in a VM, and found it absolutely atrocious to use. It was genuinely one of the most disgusting things I have used on a computer in a while. It felt like one of the few times I tried to use an Android phone, and everything was filled with bloat everywhere you looked.

This was a very stark comparison to my experience on my machine that I use Win 11 Pro on, which has none of the advertising fluff, TikTok isn’t pre-installed and pushed onto me when I open the start menu. It just has the things I want, that I added, and use frequently in the start menu. I didn’t use any of those uninstall scripts that tend to gouge into the OS, but it was upgraded from Win10, which had been installed ~3 months earlier.

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Re:Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer by jjoonathan on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:40PM (#30677956)
I have 11 pro and I did the ethernet bypass to avoid linking it to a cloud account but it's been making threatening gestures recently about "finishing setup." Is there a new technique?
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Re:Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer by ThatMedicIsASpy on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:22PM (#30678518)
If they have not removed it:

1. Settings (Win+I)

2. System

3. Notifications

4. [ ] Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device

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Re:Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer by sofixa on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:05AM (#30683124)
It's funny how you make a terrible assumption about an OS base while explaining the difference between the different versions of another OS.

Android is a great base, and some OEMs customise it to hell, and add their "bloat". Some is genuinely terrible, some is interesting. There's always Google and Motorola phones ( at the very least) which give stock experience, and popular FOSS versions you can flash yourself if you fancy them more.

Compared to the iOS experience, if you don't like it, you're holding it wrong ( does iOS finally support anything else besides all your apps are plastered on the home screen, with optional folders? As someone who grew up arguing with people who just put everything on their Desktop, i twitch thinking of that).

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Re:Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer by winternett on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:25PM (#30678554)
very complaint about it is firewalled behind log-ins and many platforms are probably working hard to suppress negative words concerning the upgrade now too... I appreciate your experience summary. Hopefully I can continue running v10 until public sentiment sorts the BS out like I did with Win7.
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