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It's not as bad as people make out, but buying a brand new Windows machine is a pretty annoying experience.
now that is a well-boiled frog
Could well be European. EU Windows installs are significantly less bloaty than shit than US installs are.
I believe this is very true. I'm from Europe and nothing in the greentext made any sense to me. Never seen a Windows install with any of the mentioned "features".
Forget the "bloat". Windows has an advertisements engine. I'm not talking about some stupid OEM bullshit bundled thing... I'm saying the operating system itself.
My OS (that I fucking paid for, no less) shouldn't be piping me advertisements and it sure as shit shouldn't be harvesting screenshots to train an AI model.
Then just disable suggestions with a simple checkbox in the settings.
Windows only has ads if you let it.
You can be upset about 2 things: where things are, and where things are going.
It's become very fashionable to ignore a trajectory. "Build 3 more prisons in El Salvador".
The issue isn't that at this moment I can opt-out. The issue is that the infrastructure inevitably demands usage.
If you're not upset you're a collaborator.
I’m on Windows 11 and I don’t recall ever seeing a pop-up like this but it looks like a standard notification from the Microsoft Store App, which means it SHOULD be possible to suppress by turning off notifications for that app (Open Settings, go to System -> Notifications -> Microsoft Store and just set the toggle to “Off”).
Yes, that turns off ALL Notifications for the Store App, but it doesn’t really have any useful ones anyways so it’s not a big loss.