This got me to convince my wife to switch to Linux again. She had the last Windows device in our household. She needed it for proprietary kitchen planners.
Now she’s ranting about enshittification.
proprietary… kitchen planners? wtf? wtf even is a kitchen planner?
That seems like the easiest thing to replace with something open source.
A kitchen planner is a program that lets you enter your room dimensions and then lets you fit kitchen cupboards, shelfs, cabinets and appliances in there. Ideally it comes with everything your supplier or contractor has on offer. Especially for colors and designs, but more importantly dimensions.
Luckily they are usually web based nowadays.
I haven’t used Windows in so long. I wasn’t aware this was a thing.
I’m sorry, what is the problem here exactly? Are there default pinned app from their partners (I think I see Disney+) in the start menu, because I certainly don’t see any advertisement banners.
FWIW I’m on Windows 11 and have the latest update installed (just checked, nothing new there, but I recall installing one a day or two ago), and I’m happy to report it did not make any changes to the apps I had pinned. All available space was already taken up by my own pins so that might have something to do with it, but I definitely don’t feel like they’ve been trying to push something on me that I didn’t ask for.
As far as Edge goes, I don’t really care what they do to that because I simply do not use it.