Making Quieter Technology

Re:Making Quieter Technology by spideymans on Sunday August 07, 2022 @10:41PM (#32381966)

I find Windows to be a very noisy and obstructive operating system. It keeps putting roadblocks in my ways. It often feels like it’s making my job several times more complicated than it should be.

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Re:Making Quieter Technology by _gabe_ on Sunday August 07, 2022 @11:21PM (#32382142)

I'm interested in specific cases that cause extra noise :)

I don't recall doing any extra work to reduce noise on my personal PC that runs windows. I'm unaware if I forgot about stuff I did to make that happen (it's been ~2 years since I set a new PC with windows 10 up) or if there's things that I unconsciously block that other people consider noise.

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Re:Making Quieter Technology by nicbou on Monday August 08, 2022 @03:41AM (#32383193)

I bought a Microsoft tablet last year. I spent a whole day installing updates - like 4 hours. Then I had to force Bing to Google - not possible - and Edge to Firefox - partly possible. I had to remove many trial apps and other noise from the start menu, and a news widget from the task bar. Keeping telemetry off through many rounds of dark patterns was a challenge.

The fight against windows update had not begun yet. At that point I just returned the device. Even if you removed all the dark patterns, the root OS feels completely unpolished and inconsistent.

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