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The tips, ads, and recommendations you see will be more generic and may be less relevant to you.

And this is treated as a bad thing?!

The number of ads you see won't change, but they may be less relevant to you.

Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.

In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.

The rest of the installation process wasn't fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like "Let's get everything set up for you", and "Let Cortana help you get things done!".

Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.

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[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Every time I have to install Windows, even in VMs I install Atlas with it, getting rid of all bloat and unnecessary shit. But even with that it's a horrible experience compared to what KDE and Gnome deliver.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Or you could have tried Windows 10 AME. It has none of this stuff.

OSes are tools. You should not care. Use the one best for a particular job.

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[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

If you have any basic computer skills it's really not an issue. You can turn off pretty much anything. I can't remember the last time I saw an ad within Windows tbh.

This is just fearmongering at its worst. It's like me saying Linux is only for IT companies running servers because it's unusable for a normal person as the UI is janky and it's all code based.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 9 months ago

All of this exists on Macs too, doesn't it?

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