[marginalia_nu]

It's really saddening how common these dark patterns are becoming, it feels like you have to play some sort of intricate chess match to configure your software these days.

  [] Turn off annoying setting
  [x] I want to re-enable the setting after closing this dialog

  Additional settings:

  [] Really disable annoying setting

  Advanced:

  [x] Re-enable annoying setting after restarting the application

  Contrarian settings:

  [x] Ignore the above checkboxes if they disable the setting

  Other settings:

  [x] If by "disable", you mean "enable", then yes.

  Fill out your email address here and our team will contact you with information about how to disable the setting:
  [        ]

[netizen-936824]

Linux doesn't change my settings for me, I don't know why people continue putting up with changed settings and advertising in a piece of software they paid for.

[zamadatix]

I use Linux and Windows heavily for both home and work. I'd say I spend more time tweaking settings in Linux than Windows. The difference is in Windows I'm spending more time tweaking it to stop doing certain things I don't want and in Linux I'm spending more tweaking settings to get it to do the thing I want.

For example with Linux and browsers I'm spending my time trying to get various types of hardware acceleration (be it rendering or GPU decode) working and Windows I'm spending my time decrapifying the Edge experience.

I genuinely like both but I also genuinely feel each has their own upsides and downsides. There are also exceptions to these rules, on Linux it's much easier to set up a build environment but I may have to work around some build stuff the OS set up for itself while on Windows I'll be manually tweaking much more to get to the same point.

[marginalia_nu]

The thing I get on Windows that seems rarer (although not unheard of) in Linux software is that sense that I'm fighting for control over the computer with some scooby-doo villain that has deliberately constructed an intricate obstacle course that is intended to annoy me into accepting other settings than I want.

"See, Mr Bond, after you kept postponing the updates and we replaced all the shut down and reboot buttons with install updates buttons, that just was a ruse. A ruse to get you to do a hard power-off, and you fell for it. Now you have no choice to sit back as we install the updates and forcibly pair your local account with your Microsoft account the next time you start your computer!"

[AshamedCaptain]

Pure natural selection? Crap like this works, so it is inevitable that the more hostile your marketing is the more users you are going to get, and thus the more likely someone is going to submit it to HN.