The negative reaction to this kind of thing baffles me. I see it as a neat new feature that’ll make my life easier. But if for whatever reason you don’t like it… don’t use it. No biggie.
There are many things on Windows people don’t like: Preinstalled bloatware, Edge, Microsoft spyware. As you simply cannot disable them under Windows, the only way not to use them is to upgrade to Linux, it seems.
Yeah when stuff like that happens I start going through my install to get vengance. Eventually I intend to keep this machine as a windows machine and build my next computer with linux.
If it follows the same pattern for all MS features, there will be a check box to turn it off, but it will be on by default. So if you don’t like it, turn it off and save your outrage, like me, for the absence of a vertical taskbar in Windows 11.
The negative reaction to this kind of thing baffles me. I see it as a neat new feature that’ll make my life easier. But if for whatever reason you don’t like it… don’t use it. No biggie.
There are many things on Windows people don’t like: Preinstalled bloatware, Edge, Microsoft spyware. As you simply cannot disable them under Windows, the only way not to use them is to upgrade to Linux, it seems.
We remember Cortana. Hard to not think about it and not expect a similar quality of implementation.
Even today while disabled I continue to open Cortana by mistake… Which won’t work since it’s disabled…
As long as it’s not running in the background using a single bit of my RAM then I’m fine with it tbh.
Narrator: it was running in the background in his RAM.
Yeah when stuff like that happens I start going through my install to get vengance. Eventually I intend to keep this machine as a windows machine and build my next computer with linux.
If it follows the same pattern for all MS features, there will be a check box to turn it off, but it will be on by default. So if you don’t like it, turn it off and save your outrage, like me, for the absence of a vertical taskbar in Windows 11.
turn feature off
windows needs to update
feature mysteriously turned back on
repeat ad nauseam
Yeah I feel like people are being surprisingly optimistic about this
I genuinely feel most of them are Microsoft bots.
There are some dark patterns in the setup experience that might cause that.
Turn off the “Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates…” and the “Suggest ways I can finish setting up…” options in settings.
I bet if you’re having preferences change on you, it’s because you’re clicking ok or next without reading during these nag screens.
Super dumb they don’t have it by default, but there are third party projects to patch the functionality in at least