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Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So what are the hidden features? The article doesn't say and I scrolled through all the comments and nothing popped out at me other than a bunch of comments of people bashing windows and sucking their own dicks over Linux?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

sucking their own dicks over Linux

This one trick explains why people who use Linux love it so much!

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

Is there a hidden tool for that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only sudo and you're good to ~~go~~ suck

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

It's called fsck. It does both at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You rang? 😁

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

It's the main reason I use it... I thought that was the point :)

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

So, hum... sex workers hate this one trick ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I mean, if using Linux made that possible for the masses, it'd be the most popular operating system in history.

Unfortunately for regular people, it isn't that simple ☹️.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Average lemmy thread

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The hidden features are flags that Microsoft enables or disables for random users as part of A/B testing. The article contains a link to the various flags that can be enabled depending on your edition and version of Windows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Afaik it's a tool to interact with an API to override A/B testing in an official way.
Apparantly some tool already exists that does it. Just not the official way.