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[–] Ace0fBlades@lemmy.world 368 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Tldr: Remote desktop, Cortana, camera, people app are all getting uninstall buttons.

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 180 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"uninstalled" ... til the first automatic update πŸ™ƒ

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 145 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HI! I'm Skype!

uninstall

Hi! I'm Skype!

uninstall

Hi! I'm skype!

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"Are you suuuuure you don't want to use Edge? Are you suuuuure you don't want it to be the default handler for .pdf and .svg files? Are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? Just in case, we'll pin it to your start menu again and put a shortcut to it on your desktop. Just until you're sure."

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Apple's starting to get more and more into this. Safari pesters you and nobody wants NEWS/Stocks/AppleTv App, Weather, etc. But you can't uninstall them :(

[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was able to uninstall all of the apps you just mentioned on iPhone just to cure my curiosity.

Which Apple device is not letting you uninstall those apps?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

MacOS not iPhone. Should have specified

[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No worries! I was just a little confused when I tried it on my iPhone and it worked.

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[–] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got so annoyed with the fucking shortcut reappearing that I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

Just out of sight and out of mind.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

lol I did the exact same thing. That and all the unnecessary crap my work installs that I will never use but can't even uninstall the damn shortcuts they slap on my desktop are all jammed in the corner of a monitor off to the side.

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[–] DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Cortana is being killed and replaced with their ChatGPT Bing thing.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does Microsoft hate Halo so much

It’s a successful consumer product. Can’t have that under the Microsoft umbrella

Microsoft will punish Halo for each and every fan that failed to spend $2000 on mtx armor colors

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[–] crowsby@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Which is also when they regularly try and get you to mistakenly click a button to make Edge your default browser. Scummy dark patterns.

[–] Morku@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never got unwanted stuff back after update.

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its seemed... better lately. But I used to get skype back every single update when 11 first came out.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also fuck with privacy settings too on uodate...

Switched to Linux after that shit.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about Windows 11, but my Windows 10 instance also reverts my "fast startup" setting on every major update. I know this, because my PC's motherboard does not work with "fast" startup and instead takes about half an hour to get from POST to desktop when it's enabled. Suffice to say that I know when Microsoft changes this setting behind my back. I have it disabled for a reason, fuckheads.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AMD?

I've got a Gigabyte Auros Elite X570 with the 5600. I have to disable fast boot from BIOS because it causes my computer to boot up much more slowly.

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[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
PS> get-appxpackage *teams* | remove-appxpackage
[–] Wilshire@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I love PowerShell

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Why remote desktop? I can understand the rest. But who uninstalls default apps and doesn't use remote desktop?

[–] KeyFranchise@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very few people use remote desktop.

Very few people bother removing all the default apps in the first place.

The type of high caliber nerd to care about a pre installed app that sits dormant and uses a few MB of storage probably already uses remote desktop often enough they'd want to keep it.

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[–] DJArbz@lemmy.notmy.cloud 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remote Desktop App vs Remote Desktop Connection.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The remote desktop app isn't installed by default. At least I've never seen it installed by default.

[–] DJArbz@lemmy.notmy.cloud 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I can't imagine they mean MSTSC. The RD App sucks ballz

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree with that β€œand”

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[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Great. Now give them a couple more years to learn they shouldn't be installed by default in the first place.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I think the list of "apps" (AKA junk) people would actually like to deinstall is quite a bit longer.

How about uninstalling edge? It is only needed to download Firefox, anyway.

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It sure took them a while, but they seem to finally allow folks to personalize their experience. I'm not going to complain about it, though – this is definitely a good change.

[–] Kinglink@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not far enough. It'd be lovely if I could scale Windows down to almost 7 gigs or so (what windows 10 is, probably should be lower) But the thing is Windows in general is just a bloated piece of crap that continues to grow.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

What the hell is wrong with remote desktop and the camera app?

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe someday they'll discover checkboxes and use them to not have to install these apps in the first place.

[–] tarjeezy@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"What's a checkbox? Oh, you mean that thing we use to trick users into 'consenting' to telemetry?"

[–] SterlingVapor@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

I think I've got it! So on install, we make a checkbox that says:

  • do not install web search in the start menu, but also I consent to Microsoft collecting creepy levels of data about me
[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, so of the five apps they will "let" you uninstall now, one makes little sense to have in the consumer edition (remote desktop - which is effectively enabled in Pro only) and one is getting deprecated (Cortana - bye bye!).

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The remote desktop they are talking about is the client app used to connect to remote systems.

The remote desktop feature that's limited to Pro is the ability for the system to receive remote connections.