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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But we need weather! For crops and days on the beach and shit!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reject crops, embrace starvation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Call me a basic bitch, but I actually prefer the inverse..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No one is going to use weather on a PC, that's what a phone is for

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would I pick up my phone to check the weather when I'm on my PC already?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i have it in ny kde bar on my Endeavoros machine, i use arch (kinda) btw

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't work. I switched to Linux and still no option to uninstall Cortana

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

sudo apt autopurge cortana

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Linux ~~is an option~~ is the answer.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What you're referring to as the answer, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

All hail Stallman

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me: Hey linux, uninstall GCC

Linux: are you sure?

ME: sudo do it

Linux: ok

Me: hey linux, update packages

Linux: error

Me: linux reinstall GCC

Linux: error

A short adventure with a valuable lesson learned by myself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What distro requires gcc!? Arch!!?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

No, arch doesn't need GCC. Maybe Gentoo. But this smells like a troll anyway

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Hell yeah. I changed my main OS to Linux mint. First time on Linux, and I love it so far.
I only use Windows for stuff that Linux cant run yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I keep wanting to switch, but the fact you just said you still use windows for some things is enough for me to just stick with windows, until Linux can do everything windows can then I feel like constantly switching is more hassle than whatever improvements Linux provides

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Me: Linux, can you uninstall the bootloader and kernel?

Linux: sure thing

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

User: "Hey Linux, I want to remove the / directory."

Linux: "Go ahead, just remember to use sudo."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I read that this might remove efivars from your motherboard and brick your hardware. There was a workaround but not sure if it's safe hardware wise now. I would like to do this to my laptop before reinstalling with btrfs but I'm kinda scared.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't uninstalling edge end with a broken taskbar? Or am I remembering wrongly

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds about right, the start bar is tied in to Bing search. Uninstalling IE would cause all sorts of issues back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

IE is still there. You can't use it anymore but Windows can. I also don't think they can ever get rid of IE Options - they changed the name to Internet Options but it's exactly the same and will break so many networks if they ever get rid of it

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linux might break more often

I convinced my work to allow me to use Linux on my work laptop. I have far less issues now.

In my experience, Windows breaks way more often.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can't disable the tracking properly at all so no clue where you get that reasonable privacy first...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy

{Looks around confused}

What the hell dimension did I walk into?!?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, I am viewed as an absolute Wizard by some of my friends in IT, because I am not at all afraid of RegEdit. Just don't touch anything at all without triple checking that that is in fact the key you want to be playing with.

I'll have to remember "Comanche Territory"!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I did nothing and my (Linux) system broke! Beat that Windows! Thank god for Snapper.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Uninstalling Internet Explorer breaks windows 10

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same with ubuntu and snaps

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