Comment on Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share

original_reader@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Using 11 at work has led me to stay with 10 at home. I even disabled TPM in my bios so it is not “Windows 11 ready” or whatever.

  Then, I’ll be moving to Linux, which I’ve already done on 2/4 devices at home.

  Aaaand I’m the first Linuxbro in this thread which is new for me, so I feel like I should get some kind of certificate of achievement.

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🏅

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, I will display it proudly

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• TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not being able to pin the taskbar to the side of my screen was one of the things that made me ditch 11.

  Unfortunately I’m gone be subjected to 11 at work on my company laptop.

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unfortunately I’m gone be subjected to 11 at work on my company laptop.

    And this is why they get away with so much bullshit. Think about how much of Windows 11 and Edge’s usage is coming from people that don’t have a choice because their workplace forces it (because Microsoft tells them they must).

    To avoid another failure like Windows 8, they learned a decade ago to stop trying to attract people to your new OS with quality design and desirable features, because then you’d actually have to listen to feedback and give a shit what users want instead of what executives want to push on them.

    So instead they further tied features together with security, and pulled the plug on support for old versions much sooner.

    Because when your corner cutting and trend chasing fails to attract users, you can still hold a gun to their head and tell them “update now or be ‘unsecure’.” And business customers really don’t have a choice, there.

    it’s a tend that had been an enormous boon for disrespectful design and dark patterns in the last 20 years.

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• MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you have admin access on your system ExplorerPatcher solves this

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  • original_reader@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like it would be easy for MS to allow this out of the box.

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    • TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is the issue with Win 11. You have to fix/remove so much crap.

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      • original_reader@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        One of the issues indeed.

        Here’s a few more:

        • stringent and unnecessary hardwarerequirements-
        • changing app defaults is cumbersome
        • Home version requiresan MS account
        • right click menu costs more clicks than in 10

        And so on and so forth…

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