Classic microsoft move.

Linux has gotten great over the years and keeps improving while windows gets worse and worse every day. This has been going on for many years now.

I switched already and suggest you give it a shot as well. It's honestly much easier than windows if you know the basics and understand how things are done there.

Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???****

because you dont own your pc. microfrost does

More and more I am considering taking a vacation with the specific goal of migrating to Linux. I've got decades old workflows linked to certain programs and tools that I know for sure only exist in Windows, so I'll likely have to still run it in a VM for those, but my system setup is just kinda the place I call home the most, yet my patience for all this nonsense is rapidly declining.

windows is malware

the fact they did this on ltsc as well is insane

I switched to Linux after this sort of tricks.

They also will fuck with your "privacy and security settitings" on updates.

If you try blocking search and start pinging home. It will make windows endleally spazz which causes stuttering in games.

They forced me to switch to Linux pretty much

Thanks satya microshit...

Imagine treating a paying customer like this

I switched to Linux when the "We've scheduled your free update to Windows 10!"-like popup started appearing again and again on my Win7 machine even though I disabled it. I didn't like not having a choice and they only got worse from there. Meanwhile, you have full control over every part of a Linux system. You can even uninstall the update manager if you feel like it.

Same with 'compatibility telemetry runner' after every update I have to disable it and delete the .exe from system32. None of the permanently disable tricks work. Plus I always have to run "oo shutup" to disable the other privacy stuff. I wish I could switch to another is, but most of my software is windows only.

Windows, on my work computer, decided Monday morning was a good time to turn my default pdf reader to Microsoft Edging. Turns out you can't delete Edging from add or remove programs.

But don't you want to have what I've come to enjoy: Printer roulette?

Win, "printer", enter.......come on Printer and Scanner control panel, baby wants a new printer queue to kill that stuck job......dammit edge, no I don't want to search bing for an inkjet.

Win, "printer"...., enter.......come on Control Panel, you can do it......HP Smart Panel, you piece of crap

My next gaming PC's gonna be Linux.

Welcome to Windows update. Where they revert any settings you make to the OS that won't benefit them.

really looking forward to getting another SSD and just installing linux on it so I don't have to deal with that kind of bullshit anymore. The bullshit I will be dealing with will not be privacy related, just compatibility related.

When using Microsoft products and accepting their incomprehensible terms and conditions, you have no say and your opinion doesn't matter.

Group policy doesn't matter, domain administrator, GPO rules, all of it- none of it matters.

You'll get dogshit and you will like it. (Friendly reminder that it was extremely overpriced also) That's the tax you pay for being in their horrible, horrible "ecosystem" from hell. Enjoy! Grease up or take it dry, you're "taking it" either way.

Let's also not forget the update also installed fucking edge again even with registry keys telling it not to. Fuck Microsoft.

PC people: Many of you are now realizing what “Windows as a Service” means. Your OS is harvesting every bit of your data and sending it back to the MS Mothership.

And you’re kind enough to pony up the cash to supply the hardware for it to run on.

The Kingdom of Torvalds beckons.

So it wasnt just me that got the bar renabled

The enshittification of Windows continues apace.

The funniest thing is that people complain about Windows, but at the same time are afraid of switching to Linux. Linux has improved so much over the years that it is capable of doing most of the same things as Windows can do (and I don't mean restoring the search bar every update)

Me running ClassicShell/OpenShell since Windows 8: