5 Windows Features I Hope Linux Never Copies

You've astir apt heard that Linux distros deficiency a batch of Windows functionality. That tin beryllium much oregon little true, but I'd reason that immoderate of that functionality Linux is amended disconnected ne'er adopting oregon imitating.

5 Bing Web Search successful the App Launcher

Windows likes to insist, for immoderate reason, that searching your machine needs to impact searching the net too. If you deed the Start fastener and hunt for an app oregon a file, you get web hunt results from Bing successful the Start paper too. This not lone slows down the hunt experience, but it besides forces successful results you didn't inquire for and that you present person to sift through.

What I find astir annoying is erstwhile I get results for an app I'm trying to find, whether it's installed connected my machine oregon not. I spot the icon, but it's hard to archer if clicking it volition motorboat the app oregon volition motorboat Edge and instrumentality maine to a website to download that app from. There's thing worse than a astonishment Edge pop-up. I don't privation to person to enactment up with that successful my Linux desktop experience.

That's not to accidental web hunt integrated into my desktop would ne'er beryllium useful. I could spot a chill integration of a privacy-oriented hunt instrumentality similar DuckDuckGo oregon Startpage into a Linux app launcher. I'd privation it to beryllium on-demand, though, possibly acceptable disconnected with a peculiar keyboard shortcut. I conscionable don't privation to typing successful the app launcher to ever bring up web searches.

Speaking of the Start menu, Windows besides inserts ads for games, software, and services that I'd decidedly similar not to spot successful immoderate Linux app launcher. It feels similar I can't unfastened an exertion connected Windows without idiosyncratic trying to merchantability maine something.

Windows 11 besides comes with a widget sheet that's accessible via an icon successful the taskbar. It contains news, weather, stocks, sports scores, and more. I occasionally find the postulation widget useful, but that's astir it. News would beryllium too, if it didn't necessitate that I get an MSN relationship to customize the feed. The default settings connected Windows, including each kinds of widgets with changeless reddish notification badges, is annoying to nary end.

In my Linux desktops I person conscionable a fewer really adjuvant desktop widgets. They see strategy monitoring, a beverage timer, and a database of shortcuts. None of them are nagging maine with alerts astir irrelevant quality stories, and I'd similar it to enactment that way.

3 AI Chatbots Everywhere

More and much parts of Windows 11 present look to beryllium infected with Copilot, a merchandise I ne'er said I wanted. It's successful the task bar, successful the Start menu, successful Edge, successful Paint, adjacent successful Notepad for immoderate reason. I seldom person usage for an AI adjunct erstwhile I work, truthful wherefore would I request it integrated into each constituent and app connected my computer?

I don't cognize of immoderate (trustworthy) Linux distributions that travel with integrated AI assistants. There are a fewer you tin instal yourself, but it's surely not an opt-out concern oregon thing you person to usage a registry exertion to get escaped of. I deliberation I'm amended disconnected this way, being escaped to fto an AI adjunct instrumentality up abstraction erstwhile I request it—which is astir never.

2 Creepy Telemetry

Like immoderate modern tech company, Microsoft makes wealth by collecting information astir the radical who usage its software. The information gets utilized for the purposes of processing Microsoft's products too. When you're mounting up your Windows 11 computer, you're presented with respective toggles for these telemetry systems that you person to crook disconnected if you privation to support immoderate level of privacy. It's intolerable to opt wholly retired of Windows' information postulation though.

Most Linux distros person nary telemetry. A few, similar Ubuntu and DietPi, springiness you the enactment to opt-in to immoderate information postulation for bundle improvement purposes. Sometimes distro developers, similar Linux Mint, way the fig of times their ISO files are downloaded, but that's all. Knowing each question connected my PC isn't being tracked and monetized is simply a crushed I similar to footwear into Linux whenever possible, and I'd alternatively ever person that much backstage option.

1 Weird Bloatware

For immoderate reason, my Windows 11 PC thinks I privation weird games and societal media apps I ne'er said I wanted, positive antivirus and audio refinement bundle pushed by the PC manufacturer. Sometimes they simply can't beryllium removed, oregon you person to leap done hoops to marque that happen. Sometimes they're not really installed astatine all, and alternatively they're listed among my apps arsenic a shortcut to the installation page.

This is simply a acold outcry from the Linux bundle experience. Some Linux distros, similar Xubuntu, fto you take a "minimal" representation to instal packaged with lone perfectly indispensable software, and you tin adhd connected apical of that conscionable what you want. They'll usually besides person a "full desktop" enactment with a clump of free, unfastened source, and commonly utile software, truthful that you person everything you request to deed the crushed moving with your computer.

Usually, nary of the preinstalled bundle connected a Linux distro is proprietary, truthful you don't person to interest astir subscriptions and trials. If you don't privation it, it's a elemental travel to the bundle manager to get escaped of it. Or you tin mass-uninstall with your distro's bundle manager, a godsend successful presumption of power implicit your PC.

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For each of my complaining, of course, galore Windows 11 annoyances you tin crook off. I've made respective of those tweaks truthful the acquisition is much tolerable, but the default acquisition connected my Linux desktops continues to beryllium acold superior.