Man, this may make Windows a viable option; opens start menu, tons of mass shooting news articles... yeah nevermind.
But then whoever in the company ruined it by forcing awful start pages full of horrific news stories on new users.
Did they not understand what made Chrome and the simple Google homepage so popular?
MS seemingly can’t help themselves with the cheapening of every experience they present to users.
Working for MS as a dev must be so frustrating at times!
I got mine to perm disable not by uninstalling, but by changing the folder permissions so nothing has access.
For example, my printer randomly disables itself. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, but I have to go into the settings and enable it before anything will print. Searching for solutions to this and the best I found was a suggestion to add a cron job that enables the printer automatically every x minutes.
I have some notes I add to every time I find an issue like that. It's a few pages long as this point.
I still don't really want to go back to Windows. They really have ruined it.
People act like Windows is somehow the only software in the world that you can’t customize to fit your preferred usage /eyeroll
No, what we don't like is the bloated, boggy UX, the built-in always-on spyware, and the product-on-rails BS masquerading as predictive features intended to ease use. It's the OS for the lowest common denominator, and we avoid it because of that.
"But iOS/Nintendo Switch/OS on your dishwasher..." ok there is a reason I don't use these as my desktop.
Most recently: you cannot even change where notifications get displayed or their behavior.
What??? Why am I forced to have them in a place where they interfere with the input box for many sites that I use? In my arch install I have them in the center middle with a hotkey to dismiss one or all. And that's just a basic setup.