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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I finally upgraded to 11 last week by accident. Apparently one misclick means straight to next version with no cancel. So after the upgrade first thing I did was get o&o shutup10 to kill the spywares.

P.s. I know I can revert. But that's also effort.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Revert then.

This is exactly what Microsoft are counting on, that people will simply go "oh well" and just carry on with Windows 11, because any effort needed to move away is too much effort.

Prove them wrong. Stand up for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Y'all are crazy. This is a holy crusade lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TIL having self-respect is "crazy" and a "holy crusade."

What a fucking simp you are. Sad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You say as dozens of foaming mouth lemmings pile on thinking themselves somehow as good for being this ingrained in their group think.

In other words, yeah, totally agree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Why don't you go smoke some weed you angry little man

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Hadn’t heard of shutup10, I’ll be digging into this tonight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have you succeeded in making things less crappy? I've been debating the upgrade for a while and I'm basically hoping this is possible by the time I do it. I already use shutup10 on win10, but I wasn't if win11 kneecaps it somehow or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Start menu is permanently lacking features. But besides that it's not a major change. There is third party softwares that puts back 10 style or other start menus, but heard there are issues with windows updates. Besides that just get shutup10 again and tick stuff off. Pretty much solves it imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's missing from start? I don't actually use the start menu much so not sure I would miss anything anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought I already replied to this, but apparently not. Sorry for the late response.

The start menu no longer has the windows 10 tiles. It's just search and icons of apps you've pinned. Similar to phone app menu. You can put some into folders/groups together. And that's it. There's no further customization possible.

You can get third party solution to bring back more features such as Start11 from Stardock, but that means paying for an additional software and I've heard it gets buggy with windows updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No worries, and thanks for the reply!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Get a copy of Win 11 Pro

Install with English (UK) as your language (doesn't prevent you from using whatever keyboard layout you want or setting your clock to your timezone)

Activate using tools that can easily be found on the interwebs

Deactivate the privacy infringing stuff

Tada, none of the problems people complain about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a good overview though I wouldn't know how to do the specifics like get pro (I have 10 home), or deactivate all the infringing stuff.

What's the UK trick? Is that just a better version or something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

Download multi version ISO

Windows settings has all the privacy stuff but they ask you to approve (or not) a bunch of it on installation

The UK trick makes you "a European" and there's a bunch of laws that restricts the bullshit...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought I already responded to this, but thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Miss click? You could've read what it said though.