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I want to be left alone (2024)

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179 points car | 4 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jackvalentine ◴[03 Sep 25 01:41 UTC] No.45111369[source]▶
I bought a 5 year old Lenovo x13 and installed Debian on it, haven’t used linux in years but wanted to play around.

Installed, logged in for the first time and got the ‘welcome to KDE’ screen, dismissed it and then… nothing.

Every time I log in… nothing.

It just sits there waiting for me to do something. It doesn’t tell me to do anything. I’ve been mostly using it to play Civ2.

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1. vitaflo ◴[03 Sep 25 03:37 UTC] No.45112031[source]▶
All of my Windows and Mac computers also do nothing when I log in so I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here.
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2. outlore ◴[03 Sep 25 03:48 UTC] No.45112094[source]▶
I think they are trying to say that other OSes have many more annoying UX patterns e.g. Windows update, macOS permission popups etc, auto-starting apps. Not to say these can't be turned off, but the default experience is not great.
3. jackvalentine ◴[03 Sep 25 04:39 UTC] No.45112295[source]▶
All my windows and mac computers periodically spring some bullshit like ‘log in to onedrive and back up your photos!’ or ‘Try the new Safari!’ they’re never truly quiet, and still. They’re noisy.

They want me to do something that serves their purpose and not mine.

4. Lariscus ◴[03 Sep 25 14:32 UTC] No.45116296[source]▶
Windows does this nonsense all the time. Recently I used my mothers windows notebook to show her some photos. Five Minutes in with Firefox in full-screen it pops up a Teams window for no reason. She didn't install Teams nor does she need it, but Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided not only to install it but also that taking focus while another application is in full-screen mode is the perfect moment to prompt the user to login into an application they never used.