Windows 11 default desktop Chat/Teams widgets are Edge web views that eat up hundreds of MB of memory: https://archive.is/pyvEO
Edge also preloads in the background even if it's not the default browser: https://archive.md/AAjz4
Both links also detail how to disable these "features."
That's software design now. EVERYTHING that is business/productivity software is becoming a web-page then when you get the "app" version, it's also a web page with a fancy window. To think I used to complain about Windows 95 eating up RAM, and back then it was extremely expensive to add more.
I'm becoming an old codger though, as if that wasn't always the case with me and computers. I don't want "widgets." I don't want all my program icons on the bottom in the middle. I like words on the contents of the taskbar so I can see what's in it before I click on it. So, basically I want Windows 95. Or what I actually have gone to using, KDE Plasma. I stopped dual booting a few months ago when I bought a mini-PC for gaming on my TV. No reason to go back now really, and I don't have to deal with getting nagged to restart for updates constantly, or fake security crap, etc.
Absolutely.
In the race to the bottom to allow billions of pajeet programmers to substitute for quality Euro & Asian engineers, we got applications running webpages inside of virtual machines inside of webpages inside of virtual machines.
Imagine if we could calculate the waste caused by refusing to pay an American a decent salary and choosing to offload that cost onto the hundreds of millions of PCs out there instead.
My work laptop i5 (quad core) is absolutely crushed by all the garbage. Still on Win10 for work, but I paid $20 to upgrade the RAM to 16 GB myself (added a 2nd 8 GB stick) a while back, I don't know how people survive with 8. Splunkd is probably the worst.
I don't want to open word docs in Teams thank you, open in app, Are you sure you want to open in app?
Software engineering is the only type of "engineering" where it's acceptable for engineers to make a shittier product just because it saves them time.
You can still have words on the taskbar (at least in w10, idk if they removed it in W11). Thats more user friendly, and you can pop in the W95 theme if you feel nostalgic. good move away from Wdohs.
I like putting programs in the taskbar that I frequently open/close, because you can quick access them with <windows>-# .
shit, i never knew that.
Me either. great tech tip bois.
Here's the ultimate way to disable it: Don't downgrade your shit to Windows 11.
Alternatively fight fire with fire. Start telling normies about this but frame it in a way it will rile them up.
More active background apps = more electricity = more global warming.
There's enough basic arguing there it will work.
It was a settlement, and the federal government has never prosecuted a Big Tech company for antitrust violations at that level since. Coincidentally, Microsoft created an entire division of lawyers to fight the IRS and got Congress to lower the agency's budget so they'd stop auditing them.
(naturally they still have enough power to go after individuals for back taxes)
Yeah, the reality with 'anti-trust' is that it's government extortion.
Edge has a tiny market share now, thanks to every retard using Goolag Chrome because Google is the homepage.
New edge is google chrome. Microsoftized
I prefer MS having my data vs Google.
Almost every non-Chrome browser still uses Chromium
And the only holdout is busy firing engineers, and paying more $ to their SJW CEO that looks straight out of a meme.
That antitrust suit was a government shakedown. Now MS, and other tech companies, spend the correct amount on lobbyists and magically none of them are trust violations anymore.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that Microsoft is independent of the US government.
At this point, you have to consider every big company an arm of the USG and almost all of their long term technological goals are directed from FBI/CIA/NSA to create the world's most extensive control network
Biden is in office now, he wont punish them, so they can run wild with anti consumer shit probly.
detail your process?
I use this script every time I do a fresh windows install on my machine. This does nuke the fuck out of Windows, which is good if you know exactly what you need.
https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/4378-windows-10-decrapifier-18xx-19xx
This was designed for professional use so there might be some features you'll want to keep through some minor editing.
So it just changes 'apps' and privacy? seems like a waste of time, why not just use 8?
not the same with 7 xp and vista lol. none of those had non-removable apps that kept reinstalling themselves.
it started in 8 and 10.
I'm amazed anyone still uses windows after it got all date-rapey with 8.
I was never a big fan of KDE , more of a Cinnamon guy.
I will probably buy a new disk to install W11 for gaming reasons and keep on doing everything else on Mint.
Eh memory usage is a complicated thing to measure. You can map hundreds of MBs of files, and not use any of them, without any performance impact. This is actually a good thing because using virtual memory this way is efficient versus reading everything in from the disk at the beginning in a way that the OS can't lazily load. The real question is whether it's actually accessing this memory and thus incurring page fills.
I actually like W11.
Is every opinion you have retarded? You're like a walking encyclopedia of bad takes.
I don't get what's retarded about liking it. It's better than 10.
Maybe I'd think differently if I used my PC for things other than work.
whats better than W10 in 11? what things make work faster?
Windows 10. You can't upgrade from anything else to 11.
What if I told you 'W' is actually a secret acronym for 'Women'. Would that help change your opinion?
Kek.
I mean, I've kind of hitched myself to the Microsoft train permanently now. I can't really go back, I have everything for work on Office 365, all my email addresses are Outlook, all my games are on Xbox Live.
In my defence, it's better than Google and Soyny.
What are you going to do when MSFT goes full pro-women? The fireworks will be fun. Smart money is not being "permanently" anything but avoiding lock-in as far as possible. Company goes too "woke" then take your money elsewhere.
I can't get over the woke crap they are pushing in both Office & linkedin.
I hear you. I'm still on W10 for my gaming rig, and here's hoping the Steam Deck drives some improvements for linux before I'm forced into W11
Yes, Satan?
why?