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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So far, the toggle is built in:

Either way, these recommendations can be disabled by going into the Windows 11 Settings app, so you can avoid them. However, app recommendations are tied to other content in this section, so you'll miss out on some features by turning it off.

Not sure what else will be "missed". But, my guess is they will be "missed" in the same way that one misses a case of chlamydia.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

To me that sounds like you can turn off targeted advertising and now get general random ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But that isn't the case. It disables them entirely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I hope it does.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Really. My start menu has been nagging me "To show your recent files and new apps, turn them on in Settings." since the day I installed Windows 11. Why would I want the start menu randomly changing? I wish you could just turn the section off completely instead of breaking it and making it smaller.

Everybody hates Windows 8 but the Windows UI peaked at 8.1.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Agreed 8 gave me a headache but 8.1 was probably my favorite. Oh well at least we still have Linux, about to switch, is Fedora a good place to start?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yes. being on fedora for last five years, no complaints whatsoever, but i did ditch the nvidia for amd to spare myself the neverending story of nvidia and linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That won't be an issue I'm already on a 6950 XT, it's in all my AMD system so I think I should be okay device compatibility wise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Fedora is good for servers and corporate environments, Mint is good for a familiar desktop, Ubuntu is good for mac users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Fedora is a great first distro! I do recommend looking at the GNOME ui, as it's what Fedora (and vanilla Ubuntu) use; I really like GNOME but it's not for everyone as it's pretty opinionated and innovative. Linux Mint is another popular choice for newcomers, it uses a very simple UI that will be very familiar to any Windows user.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I was a Windows 2000 fan in the Windows Millenium period.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is this tied to a registry key though? I do all my Windows cleanup and customization from Powershell/Ansible so having a GUI settings option isn't super useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I would expect so. Pretty much all settings in Windows are buried in the Registry somewhere. Whether or not this will be well documented, is an open question. Granted, Microsoft has a habit of changing settings like this, whenever the fancy strike them. So, you'll need to track that setting over time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

On Windows 10 it's also managable through Group Policy, so there should be an underlying registry key. It's the exact same option in the GUI so it shouldn't be too different for 11.