adding DWORD value of 32bit lenght named AllowCortana with value 0 to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search in registry editor,
Oh you mean for personal use… I manage a mixed environment with about a thousand Windows workstations and 300 Windows Servers, about the same amount of Linux servers.
At home I only run Windows for Ableton Live cause VST plugins don’t work on Linux :(.
Well, at my last job we were a 100% Microsoft free company. And at my current company I got the company to implement a policy to allow Mac and Linux workstations. I’ve managed thousands of Windows systems and server before also. I don’t miss it.
Unfortunately a lot of our core tools don’t have supported linux client software, SCADA clients and power flow/transmission grid simulation etc, but we also aren’t a business so it’s more about what gets the job done since we’re basically mandated to do what we do.
There’s plenty of powershell scripts to “reclaim windows” etc. I was a sysadmin in mixed environment for 15 years and Windows Enterprise you can disable all the creepy features on. This was critical infra environment with explicit firewall rules for everything and no traffic from the end user that didn’t go through our proxies.
Just regedit delete all programs that run at startup besides the default page file.
And people say Linux is complicated…
If you do this and then later you face some sort of issue with Windows, remember that it might not be Windows’ fault.
Imagine a world when instead of
adding DWORD value of 32bit lenght named
AllowCortanawith value 0 toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Searchin registry editor,we could do “sudo dnf remove cortana”.
Remove-AppxPackage in Powershell
So you need to use the command line on Windows afterall?
Remote Powershell is like the only way I interact with Windows.
For me it’s deleting the Windows partition and then installing Linux. That’s just me though.
Oh you mean for personal use… I manage a mixed environment with about a thousand Windows workstations and 300 Windows Servers, about the same amount of Linux servers.
At home I only run Windows for Ableton Live cause VST plugins don’t work on Linux :(.
Well, at my last job we were a 100% Microsoft free company. And at my current company I got the company to implement a policy to allow Mac and Linux workstations. I’ve managed thousands of Windows systems and server before also. I don’t miss it.
Unfortunately a lot of our core tools don’t have supported linux client software, SCADA clients and power flow/transmission grid simulation etc, but we also aren’t a business so it’s more about what gets the job done since we’re basically mandated to do what we do.
I’ve used Startup Delayer for ~15 years. Not perfect, but it really helps manage startup processes.
There’s plenty of powershell scripts to “reclaim windows” etc. I was a sysadmin in mixed environment for 15 years and Windows Enterprise you can disable all the creepy features on. This was critical infra environment with explicit firewall rules for everything and no traffic from the end user that didn’t go through our proxies.
Sounds like a great way to break your PC.