You can uninstall it with winget uninstall cortana, never gave me any issues, works like a charm. Removing edge will break some stuff though, you need some edge render thingie for certain programs like Weather.
Then remove weather
But we need weather! For crops and days on the beach and shit!
No one is going to use weather on a PC, that's what a phone is for
Why would I pick up my phone to check the weather when I'm on my PC already?
i have it in ny kde bar on my Endeavoros machine, i use arch (kinda) btw
I remember, back in the windows 10 days if you uninstall Cortana, Windows search (start menu search) just breaks
But I guess it makes sense now that this works because Microsoft itself is ditching Cortana for Bing AI
Edge WebView, which can be installed separately. A few third-party apps depend on it.
Linux is an option.
Didn't work. I switched to Linux and still no option to uninstall Cortana
sudo apt autopurge cortana
Linux ~~is an option~~ is the answer.
What you're referring to as the answer, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
All hail Stallman
Me: Hey linux, uninstall GCC
Linux: are you sure?
ME: sudo do it
Linux: ok
Me: hey linux, update packages
Linux: error
Me: linux reinstall GCC
Linux: error
A short adventure with a valuable lesson learned by myself.
What distro requires gcc!? Arch!!?
No, arch doesn't need GCC. Maybe Gentoo. But this smells like a troll anyway
Hell yeah. I changed my main OS to Linux mint. First time on Linux, and I love it so far.
I only use Windows for stuff that Linux cant run yet.
I keep wanting to switch, but the fact you just said you still use windows for some things is enough for me to just stick with windows, until Linux can do everything windows can then I feel like constantly switching is more hassle than whatever improvements Linux provides
Me: Linux, can you uninstall the bootloader and kernel?
Linux: sure thing
User: "Hey Linux, I want to remove the / directory."
Linux: "Go ahead, just remember to use sudo."
I read that this might remove efivars from your motherboard and brick your hardware. There was a workaround but not sure if it's safe hardware wise now. I would like to do this to my laptop before reinstalling with btrfs but I'm kinda scared.
Need -no-preserve-root :(. They made Linux way too child friendly imo. It messes with my workflow. Now my old scripts don't work anymore T_T
Doesn't uninstalling edge end with a broken taskbar? Or am I remembering wrongly
Sounds about right, the start bar is tied in to Bing search. Uninstalling IE would cause all sorts of issues back in the day.
IE is still there. You can't use it anymore but Windows can. I also don't think they can ever get rid of IE Options - they changed the name to Internet Options but it's exactly the same and will break so many networks if they ever get rid of it
My biggest issue with windows is it not telling you the exact reason for some weird behavior, and then making it intentionally difficult to go in and modify/fix it yourself.
Linux might break more often, but when it does I've ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it far far easier than I ever could on a windows machine, partially due to the actually helpful error messages.
Linux might break more often, but when it does I’ve ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it
Yep. On Windows the mantra is always "Just reinstall".
Linux might break more often
I convinced my work to allow me to use Linux on my work laptop. I have far less issues now.
In my experience, Windows breaks way more often.
Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy, BUT ONLY if the first thing you do in a new PC with Windows, to spend an afternoon disabling and throwing out a ton of junk, trials, unnecessary services and functions and most of the telemetry. So if you have a fast and compliant OS. Luckily Windows allows all this, but naturally it requires an advanced user (registry and servicelists can be a comanche territory if you don't exacly know what you do) and M$ does not offer much documentation and help on this topic either, of course. But in the new online subscription version they will naturally nip these possibilities in the bud.
You can't disable the tracking properly at all so no clue where you get that reasonable privacy first...
Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy
{Looks around confused}
What the hell dimension did I walk into?!?
Lol, I am viewed as an absolute Wizard by some of my friends in IT, because I am not at all afraid of RegEdit. Just don't touch anything at all without triple checking that that is in fact the key you want to be playing with.
I'll have to remember "Comanche Territory"!
In one of the recent insider builds they enable the ability to uninstall it from the usual add/remove programs, as they’re ending support for it.
I did nothing and my (Linux) system broke! Beat that Windows! Thank god for Snapper.
Once, 2ish years ago I think by now? I was trying to clean up all the shit I installed to compile something because it wasnt available on apt, had a repository, or had a .deb (I was on ubuntu at the time).
I mistyped something and ended up removing Python. Got no warning, no red text, no nothing. It just uninstalled it as if it was nothing.
I rebooted, and learned that a lot of fucking shit depends on python. because I no longer had a DE and could only boot into a terminal. after 2 hours of trying to unfuck it, I just used a live cd to save what files I could and reinstalled.
Oh, and I never got the program compiled and working. and never tried again on the fresh install. I dont even remember what it was now. Something for gaming, probably.
The great advantage of Linux is the freedom to do as you please, but it also assumes that you know what you are doing. Windows also allows you to do everything, but only if you ignore the hysterical attacks of the System, but you must also know what you are doing.
Uninstalling Internet Explorer breaks windows 10
