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Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by technobabbler on Monday March 21, 2022 @12:28AM (#30750268)
Yeah, this. Macos is my daily driver and it does a good job of staying out of my way.

I recently got a windows pc just for gaming, and god DAMN it's annoying. Even worse than Vista. Nothing is consistent anymore and everything is always trying to grab my attention for irrelevant shit. What the hell happened :/

Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by derac on Monday March 21, 2022 @05:58AM (#30752186)
As a long time Windows user, I highly recommend using this to turn off the useless crap.

https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by suby on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:48AM (#30754077)
In my experience, messing with Windows in this manner (especially with an unmaintained script as this one is) results in a broken installation after enough updates. I just let my Windows partition do whatever the hell it wants, and keep my use of it to absolutely minimal levels.
Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by jenscow on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:33AM (#30754583)
I always used that too.

However, it's ironic that the author has now given up on Windows, for the problems the script attempts to solve.

Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by dagw on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:20AM (#30753788)
Macos is my daily driver and it does a good job of staying out of my way.

As a long time Windows and Linux user who recently got a MacBook Pro, I find the UI incredibly weird and confusing compared to what I'm used to.

The hardware is however more than good enough that I'm willing to put up with MacOS until I get used to it.

Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by technobabbler on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:20AM (#30754444)
Yeah, it does take some getting used to. It's nice having a real shell though, and not have to worry about Windows Subsystem for Linux to get work done.

As someone who grew up with MS-DOS, Windows used to be really good until Microsoft started getting desperate and started shoving crapware down your throat... ads for Office, preinstalled Teams that starts up by itself, Skype, stupid Defender scans, nonstop UAC warnings, won't let you use a password instead of a PIN... all these dumb, user-hostile decisions. Zero respect for their users.

Apple has a bit of that now (iCloud logins, OS level notifications, bundled apps) but not quite as bad.

If Linux had Adobe Suite and MS Office I'd probably switch in a heartbeat. Need those to collaborate with other non-devs in the office.