Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons

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Scumbag design: cave in now or get pestered again in a few days

This is a thing that annoys me and it's not just Microsoft doing this: there's never a "No" button, it's always "Not now" or "Maybe later". As if i'm going to reconsider. As if it's an honest offer worth thinking about and not a pop-up.

Can't wait to graduate so I don't have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap

Well, I've got some bad news depending on what industry you're going into: the business world runs on Windows.

At this point the EU should just set a timer for complaining that Microsoft uses Windows' large market share to force services on their users. I do like efficient governments.

How about Roku's "Consent or we brick your TV?"

Linux, bro.

Linux.

Meanwhile I've been trying to turn off all the news, bing smart AI, and BS popups in windows 11 on the computers where we clock in for weeks. No such luck.

Get WinAero Tweaker. It's a tool that applies dozens of registry and group policy settings to kill stuff like this. I ran it once ages ago and never have had to deal with stuff like your screenshot.

Every time you open anything in office applications you get these small pop-ups

• See what changes others did?
• We added a new feature, do you want to see it?

... Hide all notifications from OneDrive.

That shut up the 'backup' prompt.

Graduation unlocks all the white collar career paths, and your inevitable induction to enterprise IT spyware and power tripping local admins.

Once you graduate, this will be the least of your annoyances.

Wait, are universities still using Respondus?

I feel for you. It was used a lot during the beginning of the pandemic, but I thought it was dropped by now.

Can't wait to graduate so I don't have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap.

Install it on ReactOS, lol.

I got a BACK UP WITH ONE DRIVE window yesterday on my Windows 10 PC, but it had an option to remind me again in 1 year...

Probably, because I'm from the EU...

if your workload works on linux id recommend it, im not aware of any distro that pulls that bullshit.

e: i love how controversial this simple suggestion is

I have to use windows at work, which is the absolute worst place for it. When I'm busy and trying to keep up with getting shit done it makes me really stressed out having get past all these popups, which always seem to happen at the worst possible moment.

It feels like I'm in Takeshi's Castle or something.

I have the notification system completely disabled through the group policy manager and I still get certain notifications once in a while after an update. And yesterday when I turned on my PC, it had added their bullshit Copilot AI to the bottom right of the taskbar which had its own notifications. 😡

Removing all the popups at work about scheduled updates, news, ads in a workplace with 8 desktops and zero people who speak English is my favourite past time. Thanks Microsoft.

Also that post prompted me to remove windows from all my devices that still run it. Not that I didn't think of it yesterday.

I'm familiar with debian-based Linux distros and run Xubuntu on my travel laptop. It occasionally freezes and needs a forced reboot but otherwise runs ok. Any suggestions on what to install on this more powerful one? I use it for gaming but play older games.

Why don't you use a debloat script?
I've used one of those twice on different pc I've configured (for two friends), and it is pretty slick.

Find the binary which produces the prompt and remove the execute permissions.

Respondus used to work on Linux. Maybe reach out to their support? It involves copying a DLL somewhere and using Wine, but that's how I did my exams

Casually watching Windows users complain about Windows when I've been shilling Linux for 10 years strong.

Seriously though, I'm actually wondering where the Windows lovers will finally draw the line.