You can uninstall it with winget uninstall cortana, never gave me any issues, works like a charm. Removing edge will break some stuff though, you need some edge render thingie for certain programs like Weather.
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Then remove weather
No one is going to use weather on a PC, that's what a phone is for
Why would I pick up my phone to check the weather when I'm on my PC already?
I mean is it so much work to lift your phone up tho
It's unnecessary work considering I have weather app/website on my PC. I don't see why I'd bother
Yeah the web browser weather is even better because it doesn’t actually take up any space on the computer too. Good point
When you live in a place like Boston, you really need that app
I remember, back in the windows 10 days if you uninstall Cortana, Windows search (start menu search) just breaks
But I guess it makes sense now that this works because Microsoft itself is ditching Cortana for Bing AI
Oh shiny new thing!
Edge WebView, which can be installed separately. A few third-party apps depend on it.
It's basically the new Electron, without most of the bloat of the old Electron. Pretty sweet deal for app developers who need to write an app for both desktops and phones.
I removed edge from my system , works fine for me !
Doesn't uninstalling edge end with a broken taskbar? Or am I remembering wrongly
Sounds about right, the start bar is tied in to Bing search. Uninstalling IE would cause all sorts of issues back in the day.
You're remembering wrongly.
User: "Hey Linux, I want to remove the / directory."
Linux: "Go ahead, just remember to use sudo."
Need -no-preserve-root :(. They made Linux way too child friendly imo. It messes with my workflow. Now my old scripts don't work anymore T_T
just do sudo rm -rf /* and it works without
My biggest issue with windows is it not telling you the exact reason for some weird behavior, and then making it intentionally difficult to go in and modify/fix it yourself.
Linux might break more often, but when it does I've ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it far far easier than I ever could on a windows machine, partially due to the actually helpful error messages.
Linux might break more often, but when it does I’ve ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it
Yep. On Windows the mantra is always "Just reinstall".
If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system. But naturally you must spend an afternoon afterwards to restore your original settings, throw out all the garbage and reinstall all your applications and files.
If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system.
Only if there's enough of the operating system left to successfully boot and restore itself. If not, good luck.
I can resuscitate a broken Debian setup by booting a USB installer and reinstalling all of the packages on it, assuming the dpkg database /var/lib/dpkg/status is still intact. I can also back up the entire system, apps and all, and later restore everything; there are no hidden secret invisible file shenanigans like on Windows.
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“Bad elf magic” isn't a particularly helpful error message. (It means a shared library couldn't be loaded because it's corrupt, for a different kind of machine, built for a very different dynamic linker, or something along those lines.)
I did nothing and my (Linux) system broke! Beat that Windows! Thank god for Snapper.
Just gotta run a quick apt update.... And everything broke.
Mostly looking at Docker, though. The Compose Plugin has been broken since v2.19. Domain resolution is fucked and it refuses to restart services if they depend on another service.
Sounds like pacman -Syyu
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Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy, BUT ONLY if the first thing you do in a new PC with Windows, to spend an afternoon disabling and throwing out a ton of junk, trials, unnecessary services and functions and most of the telemetry. So if you have a fast and compliant OS. Luckily Windows allows all this, but naturally it requires an advanced user (registry and servicelists can be a comanche territory if you don't exacly know what you do) and M$ does not offer much documentation and help on this topic either, of course. But in the new online subscription version they will naturally nip these possibilities in the bud.
You can't disable the tracking properly at all so no clue where you get that reasonable privacy first...
Yo can desactivate completly all telemetries, if you want. But it isn't very usefull. Privacy is often misunderstood, a privacy problem can be when personal data is leaked, your activities on- and offline, but not so much technical details of your PC in case an error report is sent for a driver or other issue, if they send a report about the version of Windows, searches for security updates and patches, things like that that do not compromise privacy at all, because it is data that is identical to millions of other users who use a similar system. Alll other you can block, desactivate or desinstall, apart simply avoiding to use EDGE or Bing por searches, using instead you prefered browser and search engine, which you surely do. I use the Portmaster app, with which I controll all the outgoing and incomming traffic, even blocking it if needed, because of this I know that there isn't any strange thing that compromises privacy.
You can implement Telementry in a privacy preserving way if you put in some effort but a lot of technical details are anything but unique and absolutely a risk to your privacy, not to talk about what big tech sometimes calls Telemetry. You can disable the majority of tracking in Windows but that takes literal hours and a lot of knowledge and the highest settings (if you aren't on the enterprise version) still tell you that some data is send to Microsoft servers without specifiying what that is. Portmaster is a cool app but all you can see there are servers your computer connects to and every Windows computer unless it's cribbled down to the point where updates are disabled connects to Microsoft servers which is okay but also ensures that you can't know from that data...
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Maybe I'm just really fast but it takes me about 10 minutes. About the same amount of time I spend installing and customing a fresh Linux install.
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Once, 2ish years ago I think by now? I was trying to clean up all the shit I installed to compile something because it wasnt available on apt, had a repository, or had a .deb (I was on ubuntu at the time).
I mistyped something and ended up removing Python. Got no warning, no red text, no nothing. It just uninstalled it as if it was nothing.
I rebooted, and learned that a lot of fucking shit depends on python. because I no longer had a DE and could only boot into a terminal. after 2 hours of trying to unfuck it, I just used a live cd to save what files I could and reinstalled.
Oh, and I never got the program compiled and working. and never tried again on the fresh install. I dont even remember what it was now. Something for gaming, probably.
The ability to shoot yourself in the foot is great, but you have to remember that Unix is a gleeful imp holding a monkey paw and makes book on the side with his friend the evil genie.
Here's a shotgun, go bonkers. Foot is that way. Don't forget to sudo.
The great advantage of Linux is the freedom to do as you please, but it also assumes that you know what you are doing. Windows also allows you to do everything, but only if you ignore the hysterical attacks of the System, but you must also know what you are doing.
an OS should never assume the user knows what its doing, cause users are idiots, even the smart ones. especially the smart ones. lol
Yes, thats the difference, Linux assume that the user knows exactly what he's doing, Windows assume that the user is a Banjoplaying Redneck.
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In one of the recent insider builds they enable the ability to uninstall it from the usual add/remove programs, as they’re ending support for it.
Uninstalling Internet Explorer breaks windows 10
Same with ubuntu and snaps
Ubuntu became horrible. Good for the people that enjoy it, tho. Not all users care about the same things. I left the Canonicalverse and landed on Debian. Happy as a clam.
Same except arch and suse
I still use ubuntu and oracle linux on my servers tbf
Well, at least Windows doesn't have an annoying fanbase
It does. Just not here.
Windows hasn't any fanbase. There are a lot of Windows user, main using Windows for convenience without wanting to complicate life, they bought the PC with Windows installed and use it as is. There are those who think that life is online, where they don't give a fuck about what OS they do it with. No community and less fanboys, it's always a love/hate relationship with Windows. Many using it out of necessity due to a certain software they use, some for this with dual boot with Linux. This is what it is.
Android is Windows' twin sibling.
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