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by sakesun 63 days ago
Not just storage expense. Recently I work extensively for a very large financial institute. They provide me with Windows terminal to work on the project. I initially expected to myself to work on a very institutional security constrained environment. Instead, the workspace keep popping up with annoying msn Ads inadvertently, out of any context. The default browser, Edge, was default to msn, which is full of more distracting Ads. They trick corporate users to be their Ads viewers using their trustworthy image in enterprise IT. No idea why they think that revenue would worth the downsides.
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I liked Win10, once you use ShutUp10 it was a solid OS minus a few annoyances.

But Win11 is horrendous. Watching the right click menu dynamocally and slowly populate with "open with" options is jaring.

Now add two right click menus is wild.

My choice was win10privacy, pretty quick and brutal, gutting and disabling most intrusive things.

Now I'm moving to Linux (once I finally found one that supports nvidia and mux really well).

Just a moment ago while I'm working on the previously mentioned workstation provided by the financial institute, at the bottom left corner there a new notification read: "News for you: 'New girls clubs...'"

Meh. Turns out it's a news that has nothing to do with me nor my work at all.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/04/15/trump-dei-cr...

Similar notifications keep poping up all days.