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And this is treated as a bad thing?!

The number of ads you see won't change, but they may be less relevant to you.

Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.

In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.

The rest of the installation process wasn't fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like "Let's get everything set up for you", and "Let Cortana help you get things done!".

Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 132 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yea, it's really shitty.

Enterprise folks don't have this problem because they use the WAIK (or whatever it's called now) to customize the installer.

Anyone can use it, and from what I've read, the Win10 generation of the kit is much easier to use than previous versions (which were pretty bad).

But yea, this stuff is awful.

Checkout things like WinDebloat, Privatezilla, Winaero Tweaker, and LoveWindowsAgain. There's some overlap between them (as they were built for different purposes), but they all pretty much kill telemetry at the service or installed level (as in remove the components providing telemetry).

Yea, it's BS you have to do this. And screw MS for this crap.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think the pro version doesn't have most of this too. I've never seen an ad in w10 and 11

[–] viking@infosec.pub 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They don't show explicit banner ads or anything, but every now and then there will be links to "recommended software" in your start menu's app drawer or the notification thing in the bottom right (not the taskbar, that foldable drawer thing).

You can disable those as well, but not by default.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

Candy crush is what they put as "recommended software" if I remember correctly.

[–] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I had this on my first installation a few years ago, but then never again. I'm using Pro.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

LTSB or LTSR I forget which. Toss some classic shell in there, boom, Win 10 like you remember Win 7 was like. Too bad they fucked up 11 so bad I switched to Ubuntu.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's LTSC (Long Term Service Channel) nowadays - It's the LTS version of Windows 10. Fewer updates, more stability of your OS in general. It's neat!

No Windows Store by default, but it's possible to install that separate, should you really need it.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Only issue is some software won’t install the longer the LTSC version is out.