Should we or shouldn't we?

Well, we’ve been and done it (got W11) and it was quite painless. We followed a video from a guy on YouTube and it was exactly as he said. The only problem we had was we received a couple of similar type warnings. Here’s one of them.
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We’re getting to grips with the new style and I’m OK with it.

But it’s the irony of change - and I can’t for the life of me think of the saying by Alaine about change.

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See Software update for Potential security vulnerabilities in GIGABYTE software | Security & Technical Advisory - GIGABYTE U.K. for the above error

Basically you need to update motherboard and/or graphics drivers, the above page has the download links.

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The “expert” should look at the Microsoft share price. If that’s getting things wrong, I’ll have some :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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And the former owner of MS is worried about cow burps, meanwhile China powers up to supply the new demand for computers and peripherals (again) all the extra data they collect via 11 will go on to need more data centres. But its cow burps that will end the world🙄

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heh heh “officially”. It took me ages to find and switch off everything I could on Windows11 installation. Then same for Google.

I’ve noticed over time that Google will introduce some new ‘feature’ or parameter that means data is being collected. And miraculously, when you come across that setting who knows how much later (as they didn’t particularly notify when an update brought it in), that parameter was of course initially set by default to the “yes, please collect my data” option.

Microsoft updates also quite often do the same over the years, and sometimes even override your existing “No I don’t want this” settings.

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See also Facebook where if you hide a post because you don’t like it the software says “OK we’ll hide that topic for a while…”

Arrogant tossers.

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Just done the W11 update on my image processing computer, followed by a driver update. Seems a bit snappier than before. I agree that it’s irritating having to turn off an uninstall stuff, and more annoying when copilot - that you told the system to uninstall - keeps appearing in different menus.

I’ve found setting Windows updates to manual works a treat.

Not sure if this would be of interest, its de-bloating app for windows 11.

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Thank you @Corona - it looks a useful tool. It would be interesting to get people’s comments and views on this.

Thought this may interest some of you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xSEyk4LGA

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Some malware sites have flagged this as suspicious / malicious.
It may be that it’s behaviour is suspicious but that it’s not actually malicious, but has the capability to be.

Just run the Windows 11 compatibility check and do an in-place upgrade. No need to overcomplicate it. If anything goes wrong, you can always do a clean install later.

Well thats the way to install the bloatware, now how to remove the junk. I am pretty sold on Linux Mint and its fast! Its customisable desktop with toolbars where I want them and not stuck in the middle. I am just and only just retaining windows for some of my legacy programs that wont run but thats very few and looking around there are many options in the linux offerings.
If I were the CFO of a business I would be looking to cut the expense of Microsoft as uneccessary at last.

You know that you can have the toolbar aligned left in W11, don’t you?

Know I didnt. That said in Linux you can increase the size of toolbars as well, handy if your eyesight isnt so good. Are Microsoft becoming irrelevant?

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Right click on the toolbar for settings. There’s a lot of customisation you can do to make W11 work like it should out of the box. I don’t know how Microsoft can get it so wrong.

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Comparing with Linux Mint, I am struggling to see how they could maintain their grip on OS, people fear change, (on this one so did I) but TBH my system boots Linux with windows as the secondary and I havent used windows at all this week.

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That’s interesting amd a good project.

The video is good (despite the developer sounding like Musk) “Copilot is part of the useless bloatware”. Ain’t that the truth. Useless billion dollar bloatware MS users are being forced to pay for.

MS has created an new industry (first decent thing they have ever created) for stripping rubbish out of Windows and bringing back to NT🤭

Wow, that’s impressive. Pity the rest of it is a crock :slightly_smiling_face: Is it free yet, like OS’s should be these days?