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You can remove Edge and Bing Search on Windows 11 even if you don't live in Europe (www.ghacks.net)

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[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 79 points 10 months ago

You can remove Windows completely from your life with very little effort, no matter where you live and it's free! In the world of today there is no need whatsoever for that exploitive and in short bad OS anymore.

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This comment is so out of touch.

I work in CAD and 3D printing and I'd be completely dead in the water if I used Linux.

No fusion 360, no cura

I bet there are plenty of other apps that I rely on that are not available on Linux.

I'm not some sort of Windows fanboy either. I'm disgusted with their action in the recent years.

I run Linux on my home server, but not my main computing machine

Let's be realistic here, your experience is not universal

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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Agreed, I hate how people blindly use Windows because "that's what my shitty HP laptop shipped with"

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

Here is a link to the uninstaller.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 94 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You Linux supremecists are so edgy...

I use Linux sometimes, too... But like... This shit is getting so old.

We get it, you like Linux. Now let people talk about other platforms without constantly talking about your platform.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 37 points 10 months ago

Because Linux, by its very nature, is the solution to these kinds problems, but if you insist on suffering through using Windows thats on you.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Last time I used Linux it came with its own bag of problems like hunting down drivers and incompatibility issues and random bugs that wouldn't let me use the wifi without digging up solutions in some obscure forum. Maybe it's not the case anymore but I don't hear many people lauding it for its competitive UX and ease of use.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Okay.

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 25 points 10 months ago

your platform.

You do realize you're posting this on a opensource platform, which runs on Linux, and is maintained by volunteers who are enthusiastic about this stuff?

If you don't like all the Linux talk here, feel free to move to a proprietary platform instead, maybe one with a red alien logo...

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Honestly, your bitching was far more intrusive than this unharmful joke. That joke was actually funny.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago

You're either being intellectually disingenuous, or you're new to Lemmy. Every goddamn thread about Windows here ends up littered with "jokes" about how great Linux is, and how shitty Windows is.

It's beyond exhausting at this point.

[-] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

And the goddamn distros can’t even support a fingerprint reader nor a nvidia card, or forces you to do some terminal voodoo to make the thing work, or crashes without warning after an update.

But somehow that’s better than Windows. -_-

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Windows fanboys will justify anything just because it locks them in and forces them to use it. People with stockholm syndrone justifying terrible anti-consumer decisions by Microsoft are the ones really exhausting me.

Use it if you want to, or need to, but don't be mad at the people actually trying to come up with and improve the solutions we have.

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[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I don't get why you're offended by someone jokingly pushing Linux?

To be fair, there are so many opportunities to make these jokes because of how Microsoft behaves that maybe that's the real issue here?

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

It doesn't look like they're getting offended to me.

Imagine you have a friend that you see daily. Every time you see them, they make the same joke. How quickly do you think you'll get tired of the joke?

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[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

I mean... Linux does solve the problem described. Why pay for a platform with the problem when the solution is free?

[-] Killer@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

You think i'm paying for windows?

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[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 10 months ago

Was half-expecting Rick Astley ngl

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[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This needs to happen with Appl too. AppleTV/Safari/Messages/etc app for MacOS + SIP my ass. Its not integral and if you've made it so you need to unmake it so, along with other bundled crap. SIP should literally refer to that and only that in aggregate which is necessary to ensure the system is able to function, not per se function in an un-overruleable way for the maker.

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 37 points 10 months ago

Don't forget TV brands like samsung and LG who force some apps down your throat even if you don't want them. You can't remove those apps. Amazon is even worse with their firetv devices, they just install apps on your behalf that you can't remove. We don't own anything anymore.

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[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

Wait Windows users are allowed to manage their software ?!? Get out of town.

[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

As a certified windows user, can confirm, I do not have free will to install anything

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[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

Way too late...I switched away from Windows 100% already. Linux works perfectly fine.

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[-] Synthead@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why is this a topic at all? Don't you own your machine?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I'm surprised I own my shoes at this point. Any tech bros wanna take care of that with an app?

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 20 points 10 months ago

Or just use Bulk Crap Uninstaller

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago

I just bulk crap uninstalled windows and moved to Linux

[-] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

Linux users truly are the vegans of the tech world.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago

They seriously cannot stop talking about Linux... At this point, It's endlessly annoying, as it's on literally every post about any operating system.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Nearly every post is about Windows or MacOS yet when someone mentions Linux suddenly it's a problem?

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 14 points 10 months ago

In both cases, I've encountered a lot more people complaining about them than I have obnoxious Linux users or vegans

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[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Ain't that the truth

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Vegans care about the well-being of other creatures, so that's actually a kind comparison.

Too kind for me. There would be more software made for me if others stopped letting proprietary software take advantage of them.

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[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago

But can you remove Windows from Windows?

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[-] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 17 points 10 months ago

Does this also impact Apple, will they also need to allow removing Safari? If yes, is it possible that they might allow removing other things like iMessage and Apple TV?

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If even MS themselves calls it "benefits", why not enable it for all by default?

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

Because fuck you.

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