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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Random question, but is there some bit of software like "Windows 11 unshitify" that will just remove ads, AI, and OneDrive?

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

This removes Copilot and telemetry, I don't remember if it has the option to remove onedrive, though.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not that I've found. You can uninstall onedrive and cortana. Ads can be mostly disabled. Copilot can be disabled by editing the registry.

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Pro move from microsoft. Making windows 11 usable is just as hard as making Linux usable now.

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's called installing a Linux distro (lmao)

But seriously, you can remove a lot of the annoying stuff, like the "Bing!" integration, etc. through regedit commands in command prompt/windows terminal. However, a lot of it gets reinstalled or restored (Microsoft probably calls it "fixing" registry errors...). Plus, there's an inherent level of "danger" involved when do regedits especially via terminal commands if you're unfamiliar with what the commands do.

I just view Windows as a dead OS at this point. It hogs resources like crazy, installs tons of spyware and what I'd call malware, and hasn't really added anything innovative in over a decade. Maybe longer. The windows experience has been basically the same since Windows 7 later updates until now, except it has gotten more cluttered, more ads, just more shit. I dunno what else to say beyond "Consider Linux."

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Kinda hard to change os on a work computer, though that's not a technical problem but an interpersonal one

[–] RION@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Group Policy settings with Windows 11 Pro

[–] Wake@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

I installed atlasOS on my desktop this weekend. It seems to be working well. I had to reinstall a bunch of drivers, but all in all it was an easy installation. I haven't had any major problems with it yet, but I've only been using it for a couple days.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

There's scripts, but the pattern since Windows 8 is that there's a cat and mouse game between users trying to unshitify Windows and Microsoft reshitifying Windows to make those third party tools no longer work. You pretty much have to constantly monitor those tools, and a lot of times, people eventually burn out, which means that you need to find new tools made by different people.