{"id":6294,"date":"2017-02-09T19:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2017-02-09T19:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:04:22","slug":"windows-10-im-not-angry-im-just-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6294","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a OS X user for just over 3 years <\/a>when I migrated from a laptop that dual booted Windows 7 and Linux. I like my MacBook Pro a lot but time moves on and I needed a new laptop. For reasons that I’ll write about in more depth another time, I’ve decided to move back into the Microsoft ecosystem for a while and try using Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15 as my daily driver.<\/p>\n

Windows is a lot better for Research Software Engineers than it used\u00a0to be\u00a0(See Bash on Windows: The scripting game just changed<\/a>\u00a0for an example of why) and I find myself enjoying using it rather than suffering it just because my clients use it. Mostly!<\/p>\n

Windows\u00a0is cheap and tacky<\/strong><\/p>\n

So why am I disappointed? In short, its because Windows still hasn’t grown up. It’s cheap, tacky and is constantly trying to sell me stuff.<\/p>\n

It started off in the lock screen<\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/a><\/p>\n

Other people were quick to agree. Adverts in Windows 10 are a problem<\/p>\n

\"Capture\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Start Menu is also full of third party applications that I’d rather not have…Games like Candy Crush Soda Saga and Royal Revolt 2 for example. These used to be the sort of bloatware you’d get with OEM’s when you bought a new, cheap laptop and the solution used to be ‘Wipe the laptop and install a clean copy of Windows’ but now the bloatware is coming from Windows itself.\u00a0 Sure, I can uninstall it but I shouldn’t have to.<\/p>\n

We’re not in Mac OS X anymore toto!<\/a><\/p>\n

Cleaning up Windows’ act<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to disable Windows 10 built in advertising\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 from HowToGeek can help turn off all of this tat and others have pointed to scripted options that I’ve not tried myself<\/a>\u00a0(I suggest caution before running PowerShell scripts you do not understand).<\/p>\n

All of this shouldn’t be necessary. I paid over \u00a32,000 for this laptop and I expect a professional experience from the operating system that it comes with.<\/p>\n

I expected better. I’m disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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