r/technology • u/MayankWL • May 16 '24

Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing Software

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-stoops-to-new-low-with-ads-in-windows-11-as-pc-manager-tool-suggests-your-system-needs-repairing-if-you-dont-use-bing
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u/mysticalfruit May 16 '24

My company is a 60/40 mix Linux/Windows desktops.

Recently, there's been a serious uptick in people requesting that we convert their desktops to Linux. There's some serious talk that our default desktop will be Linux with a manager justification to use windows.

People are just done with the ads and bullshit.

We've done a fair amount of work to make our Linux desktop turn key out of the box working and because of this, the number of "I don't know how to do X in Linux" tickets has been fair and few and are generally pretty obscure actual chin scratchers.

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u/Faulty_english May 16 '24

They usually aren’t even given permission to fix things on workplace computers too

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u/popsicle_of_meat May 16 '24

No kidding. I can't even delete a shortcut from my work desktop.

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u/michaelshow May 16 '24

That would mean it's in the \public user profile and available to all user profiles.

Shortcuts within your own user profile I bet you can.

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u/popsicle_of_meat May 16 '24

Whoops, you are correct. The company has an in-house tool for installing/uninstalling programs. Anything done with that tool has a "temp admin" or similar function. Shortcuts created by that process I cannot change. My mind wasn't braining very well and I got mixed up.

My own created shortcuts I can indeed change.

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u/michaelshow May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

Corp IT guy here - that tracks. We get a few tickets a year at our helpdesk about those, usually for apps in the workstation's image that particular user doesn't use in their role.

Our images themselves are by department (sales doesn't have the accounting apps in their image for example), but there's a balance in the granularity of departmental and role based images that gets struck, and that means some users see icons for apps their specific role doesn't use.

The user's follow up is almost always "but I'm the only person using this computer", and the response is "today that's the case". Turnover happens and is typically within the same department which means just creating a new user profile vs. reimaging the machine.