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Friendly reminder that Linux is free and respects your ownership of your computer.
Windows free since XP
It’s been so nice. My wife and I have really appreciated the steady, stable consistency of our home desktop doing exactly what we want it to do without distractions, all the time.
It’s a simple pleasure, like owning a TV that’s not smart, or visiting a website with no ads. It just does what it’s supposed to do. I want more technology like this in my life.
Funnilly enough getting Linux properly back in my home again (used if for a NAS with a laptop ages ago and been "playing" with it since the 90s) was making my TV smart the right way using a Mini-PC with Lubunto and Kodi to make a TV Media Player (which also does other usefull stuff like be my home's NAS and Torrent Server over Always On VPN) and replace my ISP's set up box which had become enshittified.
It's a great way to bring back true ownership and control of electronics in this day and age of enshittification without having to sacrifice anything.
This is like someone in a UFO sub reminding people about Roswell
Yeah, we know.
Think you're preaching to the choir on that one
Could've mentioned Arch Linux specifically though.
People never mention Arch Linux around these parts ...
One of the first things I did was remove OneDrive when I installed W11.
I have yet to see any of this new malarky, and I am not in the EU.
From a admin command prompt: winget uninstall Microsoft.OneDrive
If you have linked an account to OneDrive, I'd advise you unlink it first.
Switched to Linux earlier this year when I saw the end of Windows 10 support coming. I haven't looked back since.
I don't miss that "not for now" or "maybe later" being the only option beside "yes" in prompts.
Look, this is horrible and everything, but how are people pretending this is new? Occasional updates since Windows 10 have been showing these annoying pre-boot configuration screens even if you've skipped them before including ones wanting you to use OneDrive.
I've never had that happen on windows 10, and I have three win 10 machines here that get daily use.
Good for you, so you're from the EU or any other country that forces MS to stop this bullshit (or at least your installations believe you are).
Enterprise edition? Or do you already have OneDrive set up?
My Win10 starting doing this a few years ago, probably every month or so.
Last time I booted up Win 10 to game I got a full screen ad for Windows 11. When hitting the button to exit, the button disappeared and the whole machine froze and eventually crashed. (Although that crash might have been somewhat hardware related)
Time to be broken up for real this time.
Stop fucking bugging me OS! Junkmail, spam, junk phone calls, junk sms, notification abuse on smartphone apps. It really adds the hell up and this kind of shit coming from something I paid to install is infuriating.
would you like to SUPERSIZE your OS subscription?
Let's improve your experience
Sit back, relax, we're taking the wheel here to once again shove our subscription products down your esophagus. Would you be so inclined as to now use New Outlook, OneDrive, Microsoft Office, Telemetry (just kidding, we make it mandatory and give you the illusion of choice), Edge and our sponsors Candy Crush? We thought you would, so we've set these as your default apps. For instance, we have decided for you that Edge was what you actually needed instead of LibreWolf, which cane from an unknown source.
Thanks again, we will come again in next month's update!
I Cant even laugh at this. Too soon.
Man they're really making the case for me to keep using Windows 10
Until security updates are stopped in October next year...
I hope Steam OS 3 will be officially supported by then, it'll be a nice advertising campaign from Micro
I am willing to bet they won't stop security updates for W10 next year.
And shit like this is why I just installed Linux Mint on my mother's PC. No issues so far.
Didn’t the EU force Microsoft to show third-party alternatives to Internet Explorer like a decade ago? I feel like this is the same thing.
They don't show this in the eu or at least I didn't get any and in the eu they also let you uninstall edge
Now? This pop-up has been there for more than a year.
Yep. Really fucks up my no m/k living room steam machine.
Users: Do you realize what Windows is subjecting us to? MS board of directors: Windows? We don't even use PCs
For better or worse, I have a school account linked to my OneDrive (makes it easy to hop on a school computer to work on stuff), so at least I probably won't see this.
no one cares.
Who pissed in your cereal?
The language in the fucking pop up. “Skip for now”, implying that at some nebulous future date it won’t be an option.
Eat my whole ass, Bill Microsoft.
the EU should put all these companies through the fucking WRINGER. better yet, the States can help regulate them! imagine all the power massive tech corpos would lose if the EU and the US worked together to bring them down. then the EU's regulations would also apply basically anywhere else, since tech companies watch the US market the closest (and they can't afford to lose this market unless they... idk, move to China)
better yet, the States can help regulate them!
Did someone say tax cut for the rich!
Only if we can ease up on some environmental regulations and gut an unrelated federal agency too!
as if they can even move to China, its market is already dominated by domestic replacements for everything
damn, you're right. India then, maybe? i don't know how reliable the Indian market is, because i don't know much about India (Bharat? when are they going through with the name change)
The 5GB free space of my OneDrive is filled with game saves in the documents folder. You can't exclude directories there from being backed up. Good job.
I just buy a grey market pro key and it seems to stop all of these issues. I can't say I've seen 1/4 of the things news articles are complaining about windows doing.
Uninstall OneDrive, Never had a popup. Not that fucking hard jesus christ.
At no point has Microsoft gotten me to regret my decision to install Mint
Now? I think I've had this show up long ago.
Windows is just a loss leader to sell your data and other products at the point.
Does Pro not do this type of shit? I can't really remember when I saw onedrive after my initial deactivation and uninstall spree on my machine...
On Mint you just get this nice popup to help a beginner with important stuff like drivers and updates. It has a checkbox to make it not pop up again and it never does. Unbelievable!
You may think Linux users are annoying but to be fair Microsoft is frankly begging for the "btw you should use linux" comments with every new windows update
