That's not a dark pattern, it's just a failure in software development. Microsoft doesn't get anything from overflowing your disk.
But yes, this one is most likely just plain incompetence
Also by default OneDrive uses the cloud files where it downloads none of the files unless you specifically ask to do it.
start ms-cxh:localonly
and a window will pop up where you can create a local account and continue with the installation.
Yep, it's all insane. And before the "switch to Linux" replies: yes, I am using Linux, but Friends&Family still rely on Windows software. The big elephant in the room is of course Office, and I mean the REAL Office, not the MickeyMouse version that runs in the browser. No, LibreOffice will not do, neither will running Office in a Windows VM, nor running a 20year old Office version in Wine.
https://oofhours.com/2019/08/17/requiring-a-network-connecti...
It's the last hurdle before 'normies' moving to Linux.
Is this reliance on Office an enterprise thing?
in my opinion these are just transition issues. iaw. it's not a problem with libreoffice but the problem is that there is a transition.
same with a windows VM. just the issues with interaction with documents outside the VM, or that using a VM is not really solving the problem of getting rid of windows?
The VM thing is tedious to set up, requires more resources and, as you say, does not really solve the problem. Also, there's the problem of Windows activation in VMs, which - at least officially - requires an expensive retail key.
An average user will never install an OS manually so the only areas it’s succeeding are where it’s preinstalled like on the steam deck.
Which wouldn't fix this. The new computer will run out of space after it's finished downloading the backups
> take it in to a tech support business
You think Geek Squads going to be able to fix this?
The more I hear about Windows 11 makes me think I really dodged a bullet there.
Completely saturate memory, RAM full, swap full, the OS will still work. It'll be slow and messy, but you'll be able to navigate around enough to get shit ton.
Heck I suspect these scenarios would work even on Windows 10.
What kind of laughable tests doesn't even bother with the most obvious edge cases of "disk full"?
That isn't an uncommon scenario, quite the opposite, it is a very common scenario.
Pardon my pedantry, but technically Windows' equivalent of the root account is `NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM`, although it's a little different in that it isn't an account one can use to Logon. You're right that `Administrator` is the highest privilege level interactive user account :) https://security.stackexchange.com/a/66747
This garbage and more is the reason I did my Framework 12's installation of Windows 11 (dual booting with FreeBSD 15) using this `unattend.xml` generator to disable internet requirement, disable mandatory Microsoft Account, disable intrusive spyware, disable disable disable: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
Sucks to have such an adversarial relationship with my own computer though. One shouldn't have to Know All The Tricks to avoid this shit.
Oh, but you don't actually want to use Windows as it comes out of the box, so they tell us you have to use a custom build, replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe, create an unattend.xml, don't connect it to the internet during the install procedure, run these commands, make these registry changes, apply these group policies, and install these aftermarket utilities and then you can FINALLY get a decent Windows experience.
Just don't use Windows Update, or it will all be reset again.
I'm glad I left that world behind.
It sucks a lot actually, and everything that's good about it is good despite what Microsoft do to it and not because of them. I love my Lunix too, but sometimes I just wanna click on some robot heads in MvM or make the cars go fast that both don't work so well on my OS of choice: https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1nkpkoo/burnout_...
And yes, the windows updates resettling all these little necessary settings is little infuriating.
Yes, it is after you install it on your box that it stops working. /s
I had to reinstall windows completely and lost about 2 days total + couple of days worth of code/work, nevermind my own data.
About a month after that something else broke my dev tools again and I switched to Fedora/KDE (as all my dev tools works fine there too). It's been fairly smooth sailing since then. Install updates frequently, my system is so nice fine tuned to my needs it's awesome. I'm not a linux noob but the first time a linux install lasted more than 6 months for me without breaking itself. Also run multiple user accounts on it to seperate home/work life. Fully encrypted, fingerprint reader works, webcam/mic works. Haven't had the urge to install windows again on this machine, nor another linux distro.
Update turned it back ON by default.
Even if you found it and turned it off manually, another Edge update came in a couple days later and turned it back on again.
Just in case you intentionally turned it off, "somebody" probably doesn't want you to know if or when it comes back on. But in the author's case you can't help but notice anyway due to complete malfunction with no clues given as to why.
But that's not the first thing I noticed.
This time, beyond a doubt, nobody is getting updated faster than it was under Windows 98 dial-up, where we had download speeds and processor speeds orders of magnitude slower.
That's been looking pretty iffy a lot of times for a year or two, but now I think no matter how fast your fiber and how blazingly overclocked your processor, there are so many shipped defects needing correction that you're in for major delays like never before. It's just not as advanced in UX compared to when people were more advanced by comparison relative to the technology at their disposal.
There's also the factor of how busy your SSD and network have become, more & more occupied at all times with tasks useless to your own particular efforts, whoever thought piling a 3GB+ "update" on top of that was a good idea?
Don't try to remove the Samsung Gallery, as it will break the camera.
Don't remove all the Knox packages, as they will break NFC/Wallet apps.
You can remove all the AR/VR Emoji shit, half of them use the internet...
You can remove the "Weather" package. This is supposedly a widget.. right.
You can remove Hiya spyware package."spam call detection" straight from china .
You can remove netflix, youtube, instagram, snapchat, spotify, microsoft apps and other preinstalls this way too (instead of just disabling some of them). You can always install from the store again if needed.
I hate what modern tech/software ecosystem has become.
Stallman was right, and nobody ever listens until it's too late.
Which... actually runs a lot of software out of the normal google app store anyway. But it also has a tracking blocker installed by default, and nothing is mandatory.
Couldn't be happier.
99.9999% of all users benefit exclusively from local accounts and the stability they bring. Microsoft accounts are a headache and a security/stability risk in virtually 100% of all implementations that I would not want to inflict on anyone.
So um how many dark patterns was that ?
I hate Windows and Microsoft and switched to Linux years ago with no regrets. I can't help but wonder the goodwill they would garner if this was the typical user experience with Windows. If I had some path to using Windows like this, and was able to use GPOs as a home user, I might not have left in the first place.
It's a convoluted pain in the ass to get licenses for LTSC as a business, and it's basically a nonstarter as an individual. There is a 5 license minimum.
I'm tired of companies being determined to make everything shitty in the name of value extraction from customers.
