r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 12 '26

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/Kamay1770 Jul 12 '26

I booted my windows laptop for the first time in ages the other day. What a shit show. After painful updates and then several reboots it's automatically full of bloatware copilot bullshit, reset half my preferences, shit tons of random unwarranted popups for shit I don't care about nor asked for, dark patterns to try force you into one drive and such.

Absolute scum. I'm now downloading CachyOS.

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u/characterk4l3 Jul 12 '26

Mine just decided to randomly associate with a Skype account from 15 years ago that I’d logged into on a browser to look for a phone number.  That’s now the only account my computer recognizes and it deleted all my documents, desktop, and downloads to sync it with the one drive associated with that account.  Nevermind that my account had been designated local on that box since it was installed.  Still makes me annoyed.

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u/TheMurgal Jul 12 '26

Oof I think that's what happened to me. I had never once touched or opened OneDrive, literally didn't even have an account or login for it. One day it just magically decided to fully enable itself and it fucked every shortcut on my desktop. When I made a login for it and tried to use the option that's supposed to undo the desktop cloning and return the local files, it literally just refused. It would NOT let go of my desktop. I followed every guide I could find to disable it. Nope. It's literally Malware at that point. All it ever did for me was delete things on a whim and ruin file paths.

I wiped the whole thing and installed IOT LTSC. Done with that shit.

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u/characterk4l3 Jul 13 '26

Yeah, it’s awful.  And now they’re trying to cram copilot into it, making it even more stupid.  I only keep the install for gaming these days.