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Win 10 Oh no not again!

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operating systems need to be more minimalist. im tired of them trying to do every damn job you need your computer to do (and poorly, so much you need to get a 3rd party application to do it). even some linux distros have this problem but not to the degree windows does. i rather like some of those raspberry pi distros, because they are so damn slim and stay out of your way.

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  On 11/24/2016 at 6:28 PM, Nuke said:

im tired of them trying to do every damn job you need your computer to do (and poorly,

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And don't get me started on the bloatware they load on the hardrive.with a new computer. Although it is loaded with junk it does not have software to play a DVD. Free and easy to get but come on.... 

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  On 11/24/2016 at 8:48 PM, Red Shirt said:

And don't get me started on the bloatware they load on the hardrive.with a new computer. Although it is loaded with junk it does not have software to play a DVD. Free and easy to get but come on.... 

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i hate preinstall software. i normally build my own rigs, but if im in the market for a laptop, im going to make damn sure i reinstall the os from scratch. the os alone is bad enough without all the bundleware gumming up the works.

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  On 11/24/2016 at 8:48 PM, Red Shirt said:

And don't get me started on the bloatware they load on the hardrive.with a new computer. Although it is loaded with junk it does not have software to play a DVD. Free and easy to get but come on.... 

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That bloatware (which I agree is annoying) helps keep the cost of that new PC so low. DVD player software is problematic as they are supposed to pay royalties for it, and playing DVDs on a computer is becoming more and more of an edge case (a lot of machines don't even have the drive for it anymore). 

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So the laptop is set to metered connection and all apps are supposed to be set to not be live in the background. New data period started Thursday. I checked this morning and 3Gb already gone for the period. Microsoft, Windows 10 is the worst virus I have ever experienced. It must be upgrading to the anniversary edition. Joy! Not!

  On 11/26/2016 at 5:34 PM, Red Iron Crown said:

becoming more and more of an edge case (a lot of machines don't even have the drive for it anymore).

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But I still have a crate of 5 1/4" floppies. So, they aren't coming back? Kidding (about the coming back - I really do have a bunch of them and 3 1/2 floppies).

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  On 11/26/2016 at 5:57 PM, Red Shirt said:

So the laptop is set to metered connection and all apps are supposed to be set to not be live in the background. New data period started Thursday. I checked this morning and 3Gb already gone for the period. Microsoft, Windows 10 is the worst virus I have ever experienced. It must be upgrading to the anniversary edition. Joy! Not!

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The Anniversary Update is 263MB. Something else is eating your bandwidth (whether Windows-related or not). 

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  On 11/26/2016 at 5:34 PM, Red Iron Crown said:

playing DVDs on a computer is becoming more and more of an edge case (a lot of machines don't even have the drive for it anymore). 

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Oh yeah, big time.

I got a new computer this summer, and I was really surprised that it didn't have a DVD player. In fact, none of the models I looked at had them. But I digress.

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  On 11/23/2016 at 11:18 PM, 0111narwhalz said:

Protip: Add the Microsoft domain to your firewall's blacklist and never get another annoying message again!

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Microsoft has Windows 10 connecting to literally thousands of domains. There is no easy way out, unfortunately. Microsoft seems to obfuscate and confuse what Windows 10 does as much as possible. Even a VPN gets bypassed intentionally, unless you very carefully turn that off. That is stuff that gets people locked up or even killed in unsavoury regimes.

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  On 11/29/2016 at 8:48 PM, Ten Key said:

I think many of Windows 10's less savory features were meant to combat piracy and counterfeiting. 

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Possibly. But

A. That's not the OS's job, and

B. If you don't do any of those things, and care about your privacy, it's extremely irritating that you can't turn them off.

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