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Valve's monthly survey reveals that almost 45% of Steam users on PC are still using Windows 10 even with the sword of Damocles hanging over them (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I finally upgraded to 11 last week by accident. Apparently one misclick means straight to next version with no cancel. So after the upgrade first thing I did was get o&o shutup10 to kill the spywares.

P.s. I know I can revert. But that's also effort.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Revert then.

This is exactly what Microsoft are counting on, that people will simply go "oh well" and just carry on with Windows 11, because any effort needed to move away is too much effort.

Prove them wrong. Stand up for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Hadn’t heard of shutup10, I’ll be digging into this tonight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Have you succeeded in making things less crappy? I've been debating the upgrade for a while and I'm basically hoping this is possible by the time I do it. I already use shutup10 on win10, but I wasn't if win11 kneecaps it somehow or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Start menu is permanently lacking features. But besides that it's not a major change. There is third party softwares that puts back 10 style or other start menus, but heard there are issues with windows updates. Besides that just get shutup10 again and tick stuff off. Pretty much solves it imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

What's missing from start? I don't actually use the start menu much so not sure I would miss anything anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Get a copy of Win 11 Pro

Install with English (UK) as your language (doesn't prevent you from using whatever keyboard layout you want or setting your clock to your timezone)

Activate using tools that can easily be found on the interwebs

Deactivate the privacy infringing stuff

Tada, none of the problems people complain about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is a good overview though I wouldn't know how to do the specifics like get pro (I have 10 home), or deactivate all the infringing stuff.

What's the UK trick? Is that just a better version or something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

Download multi version ISO

Windows settings has all the privacy stuff but they ask you to approve (or not) a bunch of it on installation

The UK trick makes you "a European" and there's a bunch of laws that restricts the bullshit...