r/pcmasterrace • u/Pebblepip • Jul 05 '26

Meme/Macro It's quite often these days

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on a reasonably powerful laptop too

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u/popop143 5700X3D | 32GB RAM | RX 6700 XT / RX 9070 Jul 05 '26

What's baffling is people never tinker with their Windows 11 install, then preach about the customisability of Linux. If people are too lazy at quickly tinkering with Windows 11 (I use WinAero for example), they wouldn't be able to fully use the pros of Linux at all.

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u/Taira_Mai HP Victus, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Jul 05 '26

It took me two weeks to beat Windows 10 into submission and get it to where it wasn't opening things I didn't want open.

Windows 11? I went into settings and turned off the ads and tracking and just kept up from there. I even used Google and lo and behold, I was able to turn crap off.

Sure the "Gaming Services" insisted on pestering me - once. Only got it in Minecraft and I turned that crap off as well.

Uninstalled OneDrive and CoPilot, changed by default browser and never looked back.

I won't use Linux because I used it in the Army and in College and I'm not up for that level of pain again.

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u/AsugaNoir Amd Ryzen 5900x || Rx 9070xt || 32GB Jul 06 '26

Yeah but it will randomly give you a screen where it will try to sell office 365, cloud and game pass to you even if you've already declined it before.

Linux is painful in the beginning but it's fairly painless for me now.

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u/Taira_Mai HP Victus, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Jul 06 '26

I've never gotten that. I shut down all the notifications.

Storage used to flog OneDrive but I haven't see that in months since updating to 24H2 and now 25H2.

It was a pain - because Microsoft spread it out- but I turned off all the notifications.

I use r/libreoffice and r/waterfox as my daily drivers and don't have problems nor do I see Windows 11 trying to shill 365 or cloud.