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Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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1725 points taubek | 4 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.661s | source
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PrimeMcFly ◴[27 Mar 23 06:33 UTC] No.35323525[source]▶
I don't want anything, any type of news being pushed by my OS. It simply isn't it's job. Maybe, as an option or optional add-on, but not the way MS does it.

I use 10 now, as locked down and 'fixed' as I was able to make it (custom ISO via NTLite with a bunch of crap removed and some fixes steamrolled in), but really I look forward to ditching it altogether - which is a shame. For all the MS hate in the OSS community, I always thought Windows did a lot of stuff well (when it was good at least).

The telemetry, changing things for the sake of changing things and forced crap constantly being added is enough. I'm so in love with awesomewm at this point, and the fact that I can customize and program every part of my UI, allowing me to have something absolutely perfect and tailor made.

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jgaa ◴[27 Mar 23 10:10 UTC] No.35324818[source]▶
> I don't want anything, any type of news being pushed by my OS.

Then, how is Microsoft supposed to properly track your interests and sell that information to their "partners"?

It's been a long time since Microsoft made an operating system. What they make today is basically a spyware-platform where you can run applications if you are really disciplined and persistent. I don't understand how people keep up with it.

I've used Linux on my desktops and laptops for decades now.

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1. giancarlostoro ◴[27 Mar 23 12:22 UTC] No.35325744[source]▶
> I don't understand how people keep up with it.

For gaming / work. You wont have a better OS to work on as a .NET Developer considering Visual Studio is top tier, I guess VS on Mac comes second close, and Project Rider, but otherwise, Windows is the main platform.

I otherwise use Linux on personal devices.

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2. LtdJorge ◴[27 Mar 23 13:04 UTC] No.35326172[source]▶
I found Rider much more enjoyable to use than VS. It doesn't implement so many languages, tools, etc, as langd come in plugins. It's much faster than VS with Resharper, and as a bonus, it is similar in usability to the rest of Jetbrains IDEs, which I was already using it.

I only used .NET for modern Unity development, tho. I was using VS for C/C++ before using CLion and Riderfor that.

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3. tracker1 ◴[27 Mar 23 15:16 UTC] No.35327788[source]▶
Rider is definitely usable on Linux... it works on MacOS and Windows as well, and imo, better than VS for Mac. I've pretty much stuck to VS Code for pretty much everything, though the conspiracy theorist in me thinks MS intentionally gimps functionality in the VS Code extension support for .Net (they've shown this a couple times, live reload for example).

I work in .Net for a lot of backend code, mostly in WSL/Linux on VS Code. And it's not been horrible, though I'm much more efficient with Node or Deno at this point. Since .Net Core (and now .Net 5+) the space has changed a lot.

4. giancarlostoro ◴[27 Mar 23 16:29 UTC] No.35328730[source]▶
Last I used it it was unusable, but this was during the .NET 1.1.1 days, so I will have to check it out again.