Except that’s not true. The little tweaks, remove onedrive, turn off copilot, use powertoys to reprogram the Copilot key to right control. Little, useful tips to improve user experience.
And the thing is, it’s something we’ve been doing for as long as I can remember. I remember screwing around with windows 98 to improve my experience. It’s been a fact of life with windows, and it’s fine.
It maybe used to be more true, but these days even when someone posts a decent guide on de-bloating Windows, it can A) Miss something critical, leaving spyware telemetry running, or B) Become out of date one month later when a Windows Update manually re-enables all the things you turned off.
I would’ve appreciated it when I was on Windows, but now? I’m kind of just happy not to be constantly fighting my OS on things, even if I do get compatibility annoyances.
Except that’s not true. The little tweaks, remove onedrive, turn off copilot, use powertoys to reprogram the Copilot key to right control. Little, useful tips to improve user experience.
And the thing is, it’s something we’ve been doing for as long as I can remember. I remember screwing around with windows 98 to improve my experience. It’s been a fact of life with windows, and it’s fine.
It maybe used to be more true, but these days even when someone posts a decent guide on de-bloating Windows, it can A) Miss something critical, leaving spyware telemetry running, or B) Become out of date one month later when a Windows Update manually re-enables all the things you turned off.
I would’ve appreciated it when I was on Windows, but now? I’m kind of just happy not to be constantly fighting my OS on things, even if I do get compatibility annoyances.