everytime someone talks about how Windows 11 is "fine" and doesn't understand why everyone is freaking out and then I go and read instructions for how to skip Microsoft Account Creation or turn off Copilot that read like instructions for cracking a game from 2009. - ThreadSky

meimeimeixie.purplepanda.gay • 144 days ago

everytime someone talks about how Windows 11 is "fine" and doesn't understand why everyone is freaking out and then I go and read instructions for how to skip Microsoft Account Creation or turn off Copilot that read like instructions for cracking a game from 2009.

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tswaters.bsky.social•143 days ago

Leaving copilot there, just don't use it... Also "fine"

thesheeark.bsky.social•143 days ago

Reading the comments I swear it’s like those comps are haunted, mine has been plain Jane dandy since day 1, wtf

romab.bsky.social•143 days ago

"Remove windows 11 bloatware" is a Google search away. there's a lot of crap but you can get rid of it

ryan.helegrod.dev•144 days ago

I once had to install it several times in one day across multiple computers, and now I don't use Windows anymore lol

rowleyjohnuk.bsky.social•144 days ago

Rebooted PC on Win 11 as cannot rename files, doing this often now. I7 2040 msi nvidia and 128gb of ram on an Asus rogstrix gaming board. I only want to make music in my DAW and play world of warcraft. Now it resets my bg wallpaper and task bar colour. Grrrr

rowleyjohnuk.bsky.social•143 days ago

Ok working now and got files rename working had to reset wallpaper and taskbar. Now tomorrow the excitement of win update 11!

karen-newcombe.bsky.social•143 days ago

The office suite is nearly unusable. Extremely unstable and they have crammed the menus with crap like viva and onedrive and sharepoint and copilot -outlook pops up every three seconds with “outlook not responding“ messages. It’s an absolute mess.

patter.bsky.social•143 days ago

Office especially was fine & done a decade ago. MS moving things round & inventing features to add just so they can keep making new versions

kitycatte.bsky.social•144 days ago

Windows 10 was at least a tolerable experience, I cannot say the same for its successor. When I boot into my windows drive to do something, at least half of the time it asks me to connect a Microsoft account.

kitycatte.bsky.social•142 days ago

There is also the fact that I had to replace my whole computer in order to stay up to date. Some people won't have that luxury.

I ended up going over to Linux and I've been a consistent Linux user for one year and four months now.

Windows 11 is the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

amandajh.bsky.social•142 days ago

The constant attempts to get me to sign up for microsoft teams or one drive services make me want to throw things.

I'm just trying to find a goddamn file on my PC not sign up for shit. Piss off.

kitycatte.bsky.social•142 days ago

Remember when Windows mostly stayed out of the way and just did the damn thing you told it to? People who complained about Vista when that came out had no idea just how much worse it was going to get. I would rather use Vista than 11.

fenny.moe•142 days ago

"backup your computer! sign into one drive" advertisements all throughout windows explorer

d-okun.bsky.social•144 days ago

I think even just the power user experience is awful. Every settings interface I want to reach is constantly being moved another click away in an effort to add a dumbed-down UI element to ease the life of people who do not know it exists.

Just changing the default audio input device is like 4 menus

hehenunja.bsky.social•143 days ago

I understand why some people freak out, but I just don't care enough. For my purposes it's the best Windows available, but it's obviously still Windows and that isn't going to change as long as Microsoft is a capitalist company.

flyfeline.bsky.social•144 days ago

Really has that vibe of back in 2015-2017 when you constantly had to search up "[name of program] windows 10" to learn how to make it function right

lamarrthestrelok.bsky.social•143 days ago

If enough people start losing production the bosses will look for other office related software. The problem may be the software from MS is just tolerable enough to keep most people on it.I luckily don't have to deal with office apps like a pdf reader now and then.

rechief.bsky.social•142 days ago

Tangentially related, but one time I wanted to set Outlook so that it saves attachments to my desktop automatically instead of to Downloads (if I save things to Downloads I tend to forget they exist), and I found out that in order to do that I have to modify Outlook with a hex editor

unnatural-20.bsky.social•143 days ago

And you cant downgrade for shit, if i could get my shit to downgrade i Would

zerker.bsky.social•144 days ago

Everytime I log into a new w11 machine at work, I

Move the taskbar to the left
Remove copilot from the taskbar
Turn off news in taskbar

IT always leave it "stock" and I hate it enough to change it, and no one has ever changed it back.

synthwhoa.bsky.social•143 days ago

Microsoft has this impressive ability to alternate between Windows versions everyone can basically tolerate - 98, XP, 7, 10 - and Windows versions that are just miserable - ME, Vista, 8, 11.

idon-kair.bsky.social•144 days ago

Yep. I jumped 7 to 10 and I will go to Linux if Microsoft doesn't figure their stuff out.

darkbluemonkey.bsky.social•143 days ago

I went straight 7 to Linux. Steam threatened to stop working in January this year, so had to jump. Can't say it's affected my gaming too much. Moved all the kids laptops over too and we're all happy playing together, doing homework etc. it works fine.

orpach.bsky.social•142 days ago

I've never had to deal with 11, but you can disable/remove far more stuff in windows if you set the system region to somewhere in the EU during setup. You can fix the timezone/language separately.

andiarisen.bsky.social•144 days ago

tbf fair that's the year i started cracking my first windows on my first pc as well as those games lmaaaao

tonksmoriarty.bsky.social•143 days ago

Like seriously, when user share of Windows 11 is going down, there's a big problem.

I have so many problems between Windows 11 at work vs my trusty Windows 10 gaming rig.

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