This got me to convince my wife to switch to Linux again. She had the last Windows device in our household. She needed it for proprietary kitchen planners.
Now she’s ranting about enshittification.
proprietary… kitchen planners? wtf? wtf even is a kitchen planner?
That seems like the easiest thing to replace with something open source.
A kitchen planner is a program that lets you enter your room dimensions and then lets you fit kitchen cupboards, shelfs, cabinets and appliances in there. Ideally it comes with everything your supplier or contractor has on offer. Especially for colors and designs, but more importantly dimensions.
Luckily they are usually web based nowadays.
I totally misunderstood.
If possible you could have her try http://www.sweethome3d.com/
Have you not tried to run that software using proton?
Outside of games Wine still doesn’t cut it for many programs. Plus this was before Proton.
I see 😁 I plan to test a lot of windows software if it runs on proton 😂 it’s more fun than gaming for me: getting stuff to work that I’ll never really need
Thank you for your service! o7
Be sure to add your findings to Wine’s AppDB.
Right now my computer isn’t supported by Windows 11 so I have some time. But seeing this crap coming eventually in my future, I started dual booting Linux Mint to see if I could live with it. Turns out I like it better than windows. I haven’t booted my window partition in weeks. When I finally upgrade my computer it will probably be running solely on Linux now and maybe have Windows 7 running in a virtual box for the very few programs I still need it for.
None of this would have happened had Microsoft not pushed their corporate enshitification past my threshold. Thanks Microsoft.
Linux Mint is the shit if you want a to have just a smooth seamless transition from Windows or a Linux OS that just works.
Worked on me. I left Win10 behind for linux a couple months ago. I installed Win11 in dual boot with an eval license but I just don’t use it anymore. I’ll probably just nuke it when the eval expires.
Didn’t the start menus have ads for several years now?
I haven’t used Windows in so long. I wasn’t aware this was a thing.
Peter?Petah?
To get someone to explain the joke, you have to spell it “Petah”.
So… Peter is Australian??
I’m sorry, what is the problem here exactly? Are there default pinned app from their partners (I think I see Disney+) in the start menu, because I certainly don’t see any advertisement banners.
FWIW I’m on Windows 11 and have the latest update installed (just checked, nothing new there, but I recall installing one a day or two ago), and I’m happy to report it did not make any changes to the apps I had pinned. All available space was already taken up by my own pins so that might have something to do with it, but I definitely don’t feel like they’ve been trying to push something on me that I didn’t ask for.
As far as Edge goes, I don’t really care what they do to that because I simply do not use it.
Yep, have been hearing about it for months now, don’t have any
Do people seriously install the optional updates?
Don’t worry, the next “mandatory” cumulative update will take care of that, even if you aren’t installing it yourself.
There is a setting to disabled them.
The problem with these “settings” is that Windows updates don’t respect them. They frequently get reset or superseded by new updates. This happened constantly if you tried to disable Cortana in Windows 10 - even if you changed the registry settings manually, they would get overwritten during updates. I don’t trust Microsoft to respect user choice, they have a demonstrated track record of ignoring it.
