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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The only reason I'm on 10 with my main pc is because the 7th gen intel in there isn't compatible with win11. I have another pc that is 7th gen, which I put windows 11 on and there is just something weird about it. When I do anything on that machine it doesn't do it immediately, it sits for a few seconds before actions are done. Really aggravating. Clicking on a program on the taskbar takes a few seconds before it opens. File explorer, firefox browser, settings pane, ... Once programs are running it's fine to use said programs, but I wonder what they did to make it feel this way.

I have Linux on both machines as primary OS and they are super snappy, it's not the hardware.

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hits buzzer

The big windows 10 problem is that it updates to windows 11.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Probably a lower adoption rate than Vista

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lots of people moving to Linux over Win11 anyway.

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[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd guess that major UI revisions are a big reason for average users. People don't like having to relearn how to do something or find a setting. If M$ implemented a legacy UI setting that by and large mimicked the interface and controls in W10 they'd clear a major hurdle preventing less technologically inclined users from upgrading.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My question is this: Do Microsoft ship crap-infested versions to people who could make their lives uncomfortable, like, say, intelligence agencies, or do those agencies take a crap-infested version and have their IT security strip all the crap out?

Because if I was in charge of an intelligence agency I'd be asking - with dangerous smile - for the crap-free version, turn IT loose on it anyway and then be, shall we say, horribly invasive to Microsoft if there's anything still left in it.

... and if I wanted Windows, I'd want whatever the end result of that is.

On the other hand, maybe this has already happened and that "horrible invasion" is the cause of all the spyware crap in the consumer release.

Sigh.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Both. The enterprise edition has less crap, but most big companies will use custom images and group policy to decrapify it further. I do the same thing at home since I used to be the guy doing it at work. I don't get any of the copilot or recall bullshit.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No.

For Enterprise users they offer LTSC versions (bare minimum version of the OS) with extended support, and national agencies are able to get the source code of Windows under the program Shared Source Initiative.

Network traffic can be monitored, so a private intelligence agency also could watch any unwanted calls made solely by the OS and block them accordingly.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

does it take a year to build an OS that doesnt track/sell you and try to hide its doing so?

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