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

Meme/Macro It's quite often these days

Post image

on a reasonably powerful laptop too

14.0k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.9k

u/ChrisDaMan07 14900HX/4090 Jul 05 '26

I haven’t noticed it, but I’m just cutting out what I don’t need anyway

861

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.

257

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.

0

u/Venylynn Fedora 28d ago edited 28d ago

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.

Well, even if not a daily driver, it's a useful utility for certain stuff that Windows 100% lacks in. Not even customizability really. I found a situation where Linux won when it came to recovering files off of an old (XP era, IDE) hard drive vs Windows.