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Re:Windows lost market share in the last decade by narag on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:32AM (#32204251)
I won't buy another Windows laptop. It's no longer possible to disable some "features" so I've given up. Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always gets auto-reactivated. External disks that are only connected for archival purposes (and never updated) get scanned again and again, no matter if I exclude them from scanning. Some graphical popups are also impossible to disable.

There are only a few appliances that I needed Windows for, I will deal with them with other means.

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Re:Windows lost market share in the last decade by gruez on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:53AM (#32204458)
>Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always gets auto-reactivated.

It's true that toggling it off in the settings app causes it to get auto-reactivated eventually, but you can still disable it entirely through group policy/registry.

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Re:Windows lost market share in the last decade by narag on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:16PM (#32204689)
For Windows Home there is no way to disable it. There was some registry setting but it doesn's work anymore. A recent update made it useless.

By the way, I'm no hater, but an old user, since 95. They've worked very hard to lose me as a customer.

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Re:Windows lost market share in the last decade by rowanG077 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:53AM (#32204461)
You can try wine of course. It has pretty good compatability with non-malicous software.
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Re:Windows lost market share in the last decade by narag on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:18PM (#32204714)
I don't know, I only have the drawing tablet and the sound hardware, that hopefully will keep working with the current laptop. For the rest Linux will be enough I guess.
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Re:Windows lost market share in the last decade by aordano on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:45PM (#32204990)
Wacom tablets and sound hardware usually run out of the box on any updated/modern linux, so you'd probably be fine
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Re:Windows lost market share in the last decade by narag on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:13PM (#32207169)
Thank you, it's a Wacom and a Behringer external card.
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