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user-inactivated  ·  1899 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Windows 7: One Year to Go

That's fair, but imo windows 10 goes a lot farther. To get win10 to be as usuable as 7 you have to: disable ads in multiple places, uninstall Candy Crush that they preinstalled, make regedits to disable bing search in the menu, turn off Cortana (might also need regedits now I can't remember), and mess with notification settings, just to get an OS that isn't spamming you with ads.

It might not be a good practice, but I appreciate that in Win 7 you can choose not to update. In win10 if Microsoft thinks you need their creators update that undoes all your configuration settings, you _will_ get the update. It doesn't feel like I own the OS as much as Microsoft generously allowing me to use it for the time being.

One day I'll finally switch to Linux



kleinbl00  ·  1899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Naaah.

- Decrap

- turn off with Cortana

- turn off Notifications

I haven't found anything much worse than Vista on the five PCs I've had to deal with.

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user-inactivated  ·  1899 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  1899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Honestly, yeah. I did that with my laptop and it's a perfectly fine time now. I'm more offended that those things are on by default and that you have to undo half of the changes they make every update. It doesn't take a long time, and you can end up with things OK pretty easily, but it makes me feel slimy having to make those changes at all.

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kleinbl00  ·  1899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I musta missed a hell of an OS with Win7 but when I've touched it I haven't felt that way. To me, "regedit hax and uninstalling half the computer" has always been SOP for Windows.

Granted, I use none of the stock OSX stuff either; I'd use Linux if I could get the programs I need to run on it. But as it is, nearly everything runs on Windows, what's left runs on OS X, and if it runs on Linux it's probably open-source freeware that works just well enough for people to pretend it's viable.

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user-inactivated  ·  1899 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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kleinbl00  ·  1899 days ago  ·  link  ·  

XPSP2 was utter and total dogshit. XPSP3 was utter and total dogshit that broke interoperability with half a dozen different networking protocols. Really, it's been all downhill since NT4.

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