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Oh look, with the threat of a big enough fine, you can uninstall those things.

Or at least hide the front ends for them.

Linux gives all global users more control: Uninstall Windows, say goodbye to Microsoft

Gotta LOVE the EU, they're working at a glacial pace but sooner or later (most likely later) it changes the landscape for the better.

If only enshittification would happen slow enough for the EU to catch up to.

To get pedantic for a second. The title of this post is "Microsoft gives..." as if this was an altruistic act that Microsoft decided to do for some people, when the article states they did it to comply with a law.

A much better title would have been "EU Forces Microsoft to Give Users More Control:" It returns the credit to the people who deserve the credit and clarifies that it wasn't something Microsoft did willingly.

In other words: Users of proprietary OS like Windows have so little control over their own devices that it's newsworthy when the vendor allows you to uninstall 2-3 bundled things out of many more. But only in some countries! It's pathetic.

Europeans have the Freedom to Uninstall SPYWARE? LoL COMMIES here in America we have TRUE FREEDOM of being FORCE FED SPYWARE with NO Other options!

Since this sublemmy doesn't have any requirement for the title to be the same as the source, can we actually have a correct title: "Microsoft abides to laws in EU and does <...>", or even better "Microsoft is forced under EU law to <...>".

The title makes it appear as if it's out of charity and goodness of their corporate heart. (Fabrication)

Imagine living somewhere where those in charge have even there smallest bit of spine.

Funny what happens when you have a government that actually gives a shit.

The best control: uninstall Windows.

But I thought Edge was so crucial for the system to function it can't be removed? That's what MS told me at least, and I definitely trust them

Uninstalling the store would be the biggest feature. A lot of telemetry is tied to it. I tried some of the "debloaters" out there, but the windows Installation breaks after a couple of months (I assume when ms pushes a new major update).

Please let them also remove all the XBox nonsense. The other day my laptop from work that runs Windows 11 Pro gave a big ass prompt if I didn't want to try XBox Game Pass with the new Doom game. It's basically an ad for games on a Pro machine, ridiculous.

I love being in EU

Huh, well ill continue living without all that shit on Linux Mint.

Microsoft is grudgingly forced to give...*

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For those curious, if you can get a European Windows product key, you can install the "N" version of Windows. Be warned, it only works with certain product keys....

The standard Windows installer should give the option of "Windows 10" or "Windows 10 N" (or similar). The N version is basically bloatware free out of the box....

The regular version has a bunch of promos pre-installed, like candy crush, and other things that most people couldn't give a shit about....

Recently I've been playing a "fun" game with my work laptop where I'll remove copilot, and a few days later it will appear again. Weeee. In that case, it wouldn't surprise me if there's a policy in place to enable copilot on my works systems.... I'm sure someone who works here, probably higher up the food chain than me, wants it enabled, and the ham fisted policy maker can't create a policy just for those who want it, so everyone gets it because the bosses son Shane decided that he wants to see how much of his work can get done by AI so he can do even less while on the clock.

Perhaps sometime in the future, more people will try Linux and see how good it is. My recommendation based on my own experience:

Want stable, just working. Robust workhorse: Try Debian

Want newest, nicest, good for gaming (need a tiny bit of tinkering if you run Nvidia): Try Fedora

Want easy to install, but a bit older and slower, but requires no tinkering: Try PopOS

Don't like settings, tweaks and fuzz: choose Gnome desktop 😊

The home of the brave, and the land of the free.

And local (offline) accounts when?

This is why when u pirate windows u always pirate the European version. Not that I condone pirating windows that would be immoral and wrong.

Make it world wide!

Microsoft: "Suck it, Americans"

And again; repeat after me: install Linux already. Just get it over with, demand Linux work stations at work,use Linux for yourself and for the first time ever experience freedom on your computer

So being able to uninstall apps on your computer is news?

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how do i europe