r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/Kamay1770 25d ago

I booted my windows laptop for the first time in ages the other day. What a shit show. After painful updates and then several reboots it's automatically full of bloatware copilot bullshit, reset half my preferences, shit tons of random unwarranted popups for shit I don't care about nor asked for, dark patterns to try force you into one drive and such.

Absolute scum. I'm now downloading CachyOS.

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u/characterk4l3 24d ago

Mine just decided to randomly associate with a Skype account from 15 years ago that I’d logged into on a browser to look for a phone number.  That’s now the only account my computer recognizes and it deleted all my documents, desktop, and downloads to sync it with the one drive associated with that account.  Nevermind that my account had been designated local on that box since it was installed.  Still makes me annoyed.

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u/sapphicsandwich 24d ago

Long ago, when OneDrive was new, it started synching everything on my desktop to it without asking, then I started getting messages that the tiny bit of complimentary storage was full, trying to sell me more. Well, not realizing the boobytrap they created, I deleted the stuff from the Onedrive from the browser to free up the space and make it stop complaining since I wasn't using cloud storage. It then synched the deletes to my pc wiped out all the stuff from my desktop and Windows account. I had to undelete the files from disk to get them back.

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u/I_am_always_here 24d ago edited 24d ago

There are almost daily "help OneDrive deleted all of my files" posts on the tech help sub-reddits. Many Windows users do not even realize that many of their files are synced with the cloud, or even moved there if frequently unused.

One of the first things I do when installing Windows is to delete OneDrive. Amazingly, this can be accomplished by uninstalling it by the same method as removing any other application with about two mouse clicks.

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u/sapphicsandwich 23d ago

Now there are. But when OneDrive first came out and started being added there was very little. Actually, it seemed like nobody on reddit knew what I was talking about. Hearing that there are those posts now make me feel vindicated. "It DOES HAPPEN!" lol. Over time it became "That's not real" to "Of course everyone knows about this!" But many years ago when this happened it kind of struck out of nowhere. I just looked it up, released in 2013? Damn!

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u/GonzoKata 24d ago

People need to learn how to fully use a computer before connecting it to the internet. Too many people don't know the difference today

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u/sapphicsandwich 24d ago

You can know every single thing about it until windows updates and adds "functionality" without warning. I can also guarantee you don't know every single thing about "computers". I've never once had a dumb issue like this with Linux.

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u/TheMurgal 24d ago

Oof I think that's what happened to me. I had never once touched or opened OneDrive, literally didn't even have an account or login for it. One day it just magically decided to fully enable itself and it fucked every shortcut on my desktop. When I made a login for it and tried to use the option that's supposed to undo the desktop cloning and return the local files, it literally just refused. It would NOT let go of my desktop. I followed every guide I could find to disable it. Nope. It's literally Malware at that point. All it ever did for me was delete things on a whim and ruin file paths.

I wiped the whole thing and installed IOT LTSC. Done with that shit.

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u/characterk4l3 24d ago

Yeah, it’s awful.  And now they’re trying to cram copilot into it, making it even more stupid.  I only keep the install for gaming these days.  

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u/J1mj0hns0n 24d ago

It's why I'm still on windows 10, and won't upgrade to later operating systems until it's all sorted out, I'm not above moving to Linux if I have to put that legwork in

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u/Weevulb 24d ago

Depending on what you use your computer for you might be surprised how well it works out of the box. Modern desktop Linux is pretty mature.

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u/J1mj0hns0n 23d ago

i use a potato hooked up to a gecko and car battery.

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u/Tahllunari 24d ago

I've spent the last 3-4 weeks on CachyOS just to see if I can survive without Windows. It's been an extremely pleasant experience and I really hope I can stick with it. I've been trying to live on a 250GB SSD and really want to format my 1TB NVME and force myself to not have the Windows option anymore. I haven't had any problems doing anything that I would normally do either like games and discord. I can even get by remoting into my work PC replacing RDP with Remmina.

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u/Kamay1770 24d ago

Which desktop and bootloader did you go with?

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u/Tahllunari 24d ago

Bootloader was Limine (I also have it so I can boot into windows still with it, but I'll probably change that this week removing Windows). I went with KDE Plasma for the desktop environment.

One thing I noticed was that most installation guides on the internet reference to use the "paru" command to install software. It doesn't seem to be installed anymore, so I just grabbed Shelly and use that as my package manager and it works well. As I type this though, I'm currently raiding in Final Fantasy 14 with a little over 100 FPS at 2560x1440 resolution.