https://www.xda-developers.com/startallback-no-windows-update-microsoft/
However, there's a laughably easy workaround.
Pays 100$ for windows 11 pro expecting to not see targeted advertising.
“Play Candy Crush on the Windows App Store Now!” ad baked into the Lock Screen ffs why
Yeah, I mostly use Linux. Unfortunately, certain games only run on Windows and you're stuck using it if you want to play those titles.
Ah, anti-cheat problems? Feels like those are nearly the only ones that won't play nice with Proton nowadays
Some work surprisingly well. Elden ring for example. The funny thing is when I close Elden ring in windows, the anti cheat splash page stays and I need to close it from task manager. In Linux it just closes by itself as it should.
There are so many good games out there, I can simply skip the ones that don't run on Linux.
Pretty much only ones that use an invasive, kernel-level anticheat. I don't want that on my system regardless.
Microsoft owns github. I wonder if there's going to be a purge of this kind of software from the platform coming down the pike.
I'm sure if they did that it would spark a mass exodus and the development of a viable alternative, but I've never seen those kinds of inevitable consequences stop a corporation from enshittifying.
There are viable alternatives to GitHub already, especially if you need to host your own code.
Gitlab comes to mind.
Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub
Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub
Ah. That's the "embrace" phase.
Luckily for us their are viable alternates out there already. If GitHub disappeared we’d have alternates.
Git itself is not owned by Microsoft.
It's impossible to imagine that they haven't talked about nixxing something like Microsoft Activation Scripts though.
The idea that a multinational corporation will be able to resist enshittification forever is pretty cute. These things happen over the course of many years. They haven't turned it to shit yet, but it's basically inevitable isn't it?
Microsoft is a services company anymore.
You pirating their desktop operating system as an end user is something they don’t care a lot about if we’re being honest.
Inevitable, idk. Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t trust them but they’ve acted in good faith so far as it pertains to GitHub.
If they enshittify they have competitors.
"good faith" is a human concept. Corporations aren't people, they don't act in any faith. They haven't yet fucked it up, but that means literally nothing. Trust is an irrelevant concept here.
All it takes is a bad quarter, a new exec wants to prove their worth, a news article makes Microsoft look bad for hosting piracy software. Anything could trigger the change. Whatever or whoever is stopping them from making this mistake isn't going to be around forever.
Sure, they don't rely on consumer sales, but that creates a contradiction. They have an anti-piracy system, so they nominally care about it. That creates tension that will never be resolved in favour of piracy. They will eventually crack down against their own interests.
I don't even know why you'd argue about this. Maybe lightning will strike on this issue and it won't get removed, but if it makes a difference to you you're better off assuming it will happen.
Haha, I didn't see your comment until now, but I already knew about that and shared the link with another user.
I'm sure this is intended to block software thst could do things like remove Copilot and all the OS level advertising they keep populating windows with.
There's a toggle
Becomes
There's a toggle but we moved it deep into a sub menu
Becomes
If you toggle it off it also breaks a lot of other things you want to have
Becomes
Toggle it off if you want but it's still going to run in the background
Until the EU sues and forces them to have an option to actually remove it.
The only update I want is going back to Windows 7 anyway. This crap they call a modern operating system is inferior to Linux and mac os.
I've been doing windows since 3.0 (aka ~1990) Me last version is windows 7, too.
I'm going to Linux. I'm done with fighting windows unless I'm paid.
I tried the Official Windows 11 start menu. I had disabled showing "recommended apps" in the settings. This hid the icons, but not the section. So, whenever I opened the start menu, the entire bottom half was a section that said "enable recommended apps to show them here."
That's when I installed Start11 (I also bought StartAllBack, but I preferred Start11) and never looked back.
At this point I've just abandoned the start menu all together. PowerToys Run has effectively become how I launch anything that isn't on the taskbar, tied to one of the buttons on my mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Everything search on a different shortcut replaces the built-in search.
Of course that's just how I cope on my mandatory-Windows 11 work laptop. At home (and I know this is almost a meme at this point), I'm slowly getting myself accustomed to Linux alongside Windows 10 until that's no longer feasible.
Am I the only one that still using the file explorer to navigate to the folders I want?I've never used the start menu..only computer then Explorer
Am I misunderstanding something or are you saying you dig into the program files every time you launch a program? I thought the OP was talking about programs not files and folder.
I don't install to program files typically, but yes. I navigate the tree and launch either my bat files or exe files directly. A program is just launched by a 'file' or executable in this case.
I do this. All programs I access regularly are shortcuts on the desktop. Everything else I can get to with folders or launchers like steam.
Out of curiosity: How do you start programs? If a program is clearly associated with a file by opening the file from explorer I assume, but there are programs which are not file based (web browser, games, ...). Do you maintain a folder with shortcuts or do you navigate the start menu folder using the explorer?
I've been a Linux Mint guy for the last ten years.
By default, the Menu is able to explore the file system. I turn that off. I want that for launching applications. I use Nemo, the file manager, for browsing and opening files.
You don’t need widows to game anymore (Proton the game software for Linux, not Proton the VPN/email provider)
I'll switch once HDR support becomes mainstream in Linux. That and a Linux equivalent of AutoHDR (which is a Windows 11 feature that converts SDR videos and games to HDR). This is literally the only thing keeping me on Windows.
I have to make this nitpick:
"you" are the one keeping you on windows. You decide that those features are more important than any disadvantages.
Which I think is absolutely OK - that's your choice. Many many people took this choice for a myriad of reasons and are the sum of "windows majority" - and no "I would change if" will perpetuate either feature development on Linux programs nor pressure on Microsoft.
HDR has been working great for me in KDE. I've been using mpv for HDR videos, and games with HDR work great. KDE has an SDR vibrancy setting when HDR is enabled that lets you decide how bright and colorful you want SDR content (turn it up enough and it looks like HDR to me), I'm not sure if that's how auto HDR works.
im curious what version of kde plasma you're on, i thought they were still working on it and plasma 6 just released. My computer with the hdr monitor is still on plasma 5.
edit: should've looked it up first of course. looks like support is expiremental on Wayland plasma 6. I'll see what happens when kubuntu catches up.
Nobara comes with Plasma 6 and a pile of proton/wine/gpu upgrades to improve gaming, and put on a Fedora base that's impressively stable. It's done by GloriousEggroll so it's all cutting edge Wine improvements.
Yeah, I'm on plasma 6, and interesting that they call it experimental. The setting is available by default in the display settings with no warning or anything. Either way, it works perfectly- hopefully kubuntu updates to 6 soon because it's so much better than 5 :)
The SDR option is actually called "SDR brightness" and it seems to increase both the colour intensity and brightness as you slide it up. I have it set to 150 out of 500 and it's about as intense as I'd want it.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
Steam on Linux uses Proton to play Windows games. Ain't perfect, but perfect enough I don't need windows anymore.
This isn't normal Windows Updates. These are warnings for OS upgrades as Windows Insiders upgrade to new preview builds of the OS.
Meh, I don't care, I'd much rather have startallback than updates as it's the only thing that makes that windows box usable.
i know you guys always hate to hear this, but this problem wont go away unless you can move to linux