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I love the periodical "Let's finish setting up your PC" screens Windows springs on you before you get to desktop (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They always give you a scare since it looks like Windows is booting into a recovery environment. Just had one, and the only options I had were "Remind me in 3 days" and "Continue".

It's always about Microsoft wanting you to set Edge as your default browser as well as trying to get you to log in on a Microsoft account and you have to individually decline every suggestion since you can't just skip the fucking thing.

Piss off, Microsoft

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I pretty much only use Windows at work (not my computer) and just the fact that it tries to shill shit like ChatGPT to you in the log-in screen sickens me. It's like a free-to-play mobile game except it is an operating system which you're theoretically supposed to pay $200 for. Then I have to look up all sorts of registry hacks just to do things like get the ordinary right-click menu back in the file browser because there isn't even an exposed option for it.

And it still doesn't even have grep.

This periodic 'let's set up your computer all over again' thing is a dark pattern designed to prey on people who aren't computer experts. There are people I care about, family and friends, who are not computer experts. The modern Internet and software landscape is incredibly user-hostile. When I set up computers for people, I take a lot of care to configure it in a way where these people aren't going to get sucked into some vendor lock-in, leak personal information all over the place, or get fooled into paying for Acrobat just so they can rotate a PDF. This delayed reconfiguration wizard is designed specifically to undermine this sort of careful hardening effort. It is bad enough that you need to spend four+ hours after installing Windows just to make it usable by changing dozens of settings and installing dozens of libre software packages to do things which ought to be included in a standard OS distribution.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

mfw Windows still doesn't come with a package manager

mfw you still can't remap hotkeys with OOTB Windows

mfw you can't move the taskbar to the side of the screen without using regedit

mfw you can't move files to another directory by dropping the files from one tab to another

mfw right-clicking gives you a useless menu that nobody uses

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

mfw Windows still doesn't come with a package manager

I'm not a Windows-head (never owned a Windows PC), but MSI's seem to quack and waggle like a package. If you mean "they don't have a central repository", yeah, unless if you count their appstore or whatever they call it.

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