These changes are only applicable to users in the EEA. For those outside the region, Windows will continue to function as it is!
The changes to Windows for DMA-compliance include:
- You can now uninstall Edge and Bing web search using the built-in settings. Earlier, the option was greyed out.
- Third-party web search application developers can now utilize the Windows search box in the taskbar using the instructions provided by Microsoft and choose any web browser to show results from the web.
- Microsoft will no longer sign-in users to Edge, Bing, and Microsoft Start services during the initial Windows setup experience.
- Data collected about the functioning of non-Microsoft apps, primarily bug detection and its effects on the OS, from Windows PCs will not be used for competitive purposes.
- Microsoft, from now on, will need explicit user consent before combining data from the OS and other sources. It will also deliver new consent screens where required.
still not switching to windows
How do you know a linux user?
Dont’ worry, they’ll tell you.
Plot twist: he’s a BSD user
How do you know a Windows user?
Don’t worry, they’ll bitch and moan about all the different ways Windows sucks.
The reason you don’t ever hear linux users say how much their OS sucks is because all of you are just fucking cultists.
I don’t like windows, I don’t like microsoft, but I’ll tell you this the headaches I’ve gotten from supporting 10 Ubuntu desktops was five times greater than the 200 other windows users on-site.
The reason you don’t ever hear linux users say how much their OS sucks is because all of you are just fucking cultists.
Acktshully,
All the Linux users you’re not hearing bitching about their OS is because they can’t get to a browser right now, due to their environments all being borked due to [ the latest update putting them in circular dependency hell / a default option shipped with their distro hidden in a config file somewhere is not set to a sane value / their Wi-Fi driver is not compatible with the latest kernel version / nVidia drivers exploded after enabling the wiggly window effect / unexplained kernel panic / failure to read the wiki ], choose all that apply.
/s
Not going to lie I’ve had some of those issues be the reason I gave up on any one of my 9 attempts to go full linux as a daily driver.
How do you know a linux user?
Because you’re in lemmy
Judging by the vote ratio, looks like not that many lemmy users are linux users as you think.
After being a Debian and Ubuntu user for many years, im fairly satisfied with win 11. Once you get rid of all that bloatware and enhance some privacy settings. Q
Lmao windows is a messy POS. It limits your capabilities and removes your freedoms to the point the eu needs to force them to allow the shitty browser that’s included to be removed.
I hope this also means not showing the thousand “setup” screen needed to install the os,post install.
That is single-handedly the worst thing ever and only Apple manages to compete with such tactics.
I was surprised I was able to uninstall Media Player on Windows 11. I played a video file on my laptop and accidentally selected “always open with”. Lo and behold Windows Media Player doesn’t play HEVC encoded files (not sure if it was 264 or 265). I thought I would have to tinker with the default program settings but tried “add or remove programs” on a lark and it worked. I then opened the file with VLC as one normally does and life is back in balance.
If I set my region to an EEA country is that good enough or do I need to reinstall windows to get this?
I’d say that everyone should use Linux but that is materially impossible for many folks. Microsoft should just make consumer friendly products instead of this bullshit.
I feel like I’m on Coruscant after the second death star was blown up.
There is exactly one piece of software that I am using Windows for and that is camtasia.
Well Windows 10 at least lets you create a local user account. you can’t even install windows 11 without having a microsoft online account, because you need a Microsoft account to be able to create a local user.
Awesome. How do I port this ability over to an American PC?
Who puts up with this shit anyway? Go buy an Apple. You can eat it while installing Linux.
Finally! Always glad to see the EU forcing Tech Giants to be user friendly
One of the reasons I love Linux is that I can install or uninstall any application I want. I don’t even need a desktop let alone a web browser.
Good. Now make it be uninstalled by default.
Or even better: split MS up. And a bunch of other large companies also.
Yeah Microsoft way to big
Can you uninstall safari on OSX?
One drive is the one that really ruffles my feathers.
It turns itself back on randomly, which wouldn’t be too much of a problem except for that it fucking remaps the desktop… a file that was previously located at C:\user\desktop\ is now at C:\user\One Drive\desktop…
Note the space in the path, they didn’t even have the decency to use an underscore… \one_drive\… even though it’s one of their own rules in powershell scripting.
For those of us using powershell to automate stuff this remapping is a nightmare and should be illegal.
Too bad I am in the US and will just have to continue to get support calls from time to time when a users desktop gets remapped behind the scenes.
Maybe there is a way using powershell and windows scheduled tasks to check to see if one drive turned itself back on, then auto turn it off and remap the desktop back to normal.
The absurdity of having windows check to see if windows screwed itself up, then if so have it fix itself is just laughable.
