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by klabb3 752 days ago
The people who understand what it does and how it works are a minority. People will accept Microsoft’s recommended settings, often without even reading it. Enabling it by default is beyond irresponsible. Especially on desktops that are very commonly shared between household members. And so many other reasons.

> I think most users would find it useful

For what? Most users won’t even remember that it’s enabled. This already exists as a niche product for specific tasks, it’s by no means a universally useful thing. Especially not at 25GB of disk usage and god knows what CPU/GPU/RAM.