You can uninstall it with
winget uninstall cortana, never gave me any issues, works like a charm. Removing edge will break some stuff though, you need some edge render thingie for certain programs like Weather.I remember, back in the windows 10 days if you uninstall Cortana, Windows search (start menu search) just breaks
But I guess it makes sense now that this works because Microsoft itself is ditching Cortana for Bing AI
Edge WebView, which can be installed separately. A few third-party apps depend on it.
Doesn't uninstalling edge end with a broken taskbar? Or am I remembering wrongly
Sounds about right, the start bar is tied in to Bing search. Uninstalling IE would cause all sorts of issues back in the day.
I did nothing and my (Linux) system broke! Beat that Windows! Thank god for Snapper.
Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy, BUT ONLY if the first thing you do in a new PC with Windows, to spend an afternoon disabling and throwing out a ton of junk, trials, unnecessary services and functions and most of the telemetry. So if you have a fast and compliant OS. Luckily Windows allows all this, but naturally it requires an advanced user (registry and servicelists can be a comanche territory if you don't exacly know what you do) and M$ does not offer much documentation and help on this topic either, of course. But in the new online subscription version they will naturally nip these possibilities in the bud.
What trials?
Only thing I had to remove was Skype and there are tools that let you do whatever you want in a matter of minutes.
Yes, there are some tools which can help, eg https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer, also Windows itself has the GodMode, but it need somewhat more than this and only remove Skype, MS Store and Cortana.
I don't use Windows, but doesn't the LTSC and/or Enterprise edition come with better defaults?
or the server version. But it is difficult and/or expensive for ordinary users to use any of the unbloated versions.
I don't know, I've the Home edition and this came by default with a lot of crap and services to "improve the User experience" as they call it euphemistically and that can only be understood sarcastically.
Yeah, LTSC is basically how Windows should be, with less bloatware and security updates only.
Yeah, cause shockingly enterprise customers don't like the idea of microsoft taking big chunks of data for no rhyme or reason.
Once, 2ish years ago I think by now? I was trying to clean up all the shit I installed to compile something because it wasnt available on apt, had a repository, or had a .deb (I was on ubuntu at the time).
I mistyped something and ended up removing Python. Got no warning, no red text, no nothing. It just uninstalled it as if it was nothing.
I rebooted, and learned that a lot of fucking shit depends on python. because I no longer had a DE and could only boot into a terminal. after 2 hours of trying to unfuck it, I just used a live cd to save what files I could and reinstalled.
Oh, and I never got the program compiled and working. and never tried again on the fresh install. I dont even remember what it was now. Something for gaming, probably.
The great advantage of Linux is the freedom to do as you please, but it also assumes that you know what you are doing. Windows also allows you to do everything, but only if you ignore the hysterical attacks of the System, but you must also know what you are doing.
an OS should never assume the user knows what its doing, cause users are idiots, even the smart ones. especially the smart ones. lol
Yes, thats the difference, Linux assume that the user knows exactly what he's doing, Windows assume that the user is a Banjoplaying Redneck.
an OS should never assume the user knows what its doing, cause users are idiots, even the smart ones. especially the smart ones. lol
In one of the recent insider builds they enable the ability to uninstall it from the usual add/remove programs, as they’re ending support for it.
Windows hasn't any fanbase. There are a lot of Windows user, main using Windows for convenience without wanting to complicate life, they bought the PC with Windows installed and use it as is. There are those who think that life is online, where they don't give a fuck about what OS they do it with. No community and less fanboys, it's always a love/hate relationship with Windows. Many using it out of necessity due to a certain software they use, some for this with dual boot with Linux. This is what it is.
Were you not around when the hordes of MS fanboys kept on insisting the start menu wasn't necessary acktually for Windows 8?
