• Paradachshund@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    Have you succeeded in making things less crappy? I’ve been debating the upgrade for a while and I’m basically hoping this is possible by the time I do it. I already use shutup10 on win10, but I wasn’t if win11 kneecaps it somehow or not.

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      2 days ago

      Start menu is permanently lacking features. But besides that it’s not a major change. There is third party softwares that puts back 10 style or other start menus, but heard there are issues with windows updates. Besides that just get shutup10 again and tick stuff off. Pretty much solves it imo.

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        2 days ago

        What’s missing from start? I don’t actually use the start menu much so not sure I would miss anything anyway.

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          29 minutes ago

          I thought I already replied to this, but apparently not. Sorry for the late response.

          The start menu no longer has the windows 10 tiles. It’s just search and icons of apps you’ve pinned. Similar to phone app menu. You can put some into folders/groups together. And that’s it. There’s no further customization possible.

          You can get third party solution to bring back more features such as Start11 from Stardock, but that means paying for an additional software and I’ve heard it gets buggy with windows updates.

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      4 days ago

      Get a copy of Win 11 Pro

      Install with English (UK) as your language (doesn’t prevent you from using whatever keyboard layout you want or setting your clock to your timezone)

      Activate using tools that can easily be found on the interwebs

      Deactivate the privacy infringing stuff

      Tada, none of the problems people complain about

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        4 days ago

        This is a good overview though I wouldn’t know how to do the specifics like get pro (I have 10 home), or deactivate all the infringing stuff.

        What’s the UK trick? Is that just a better version or something?