PC optimizers are not a new concept, and they have been around for quite a while. Nowadays, many consider them unnecessary, but having an official program made by Microsoft that is capable of (allegedly) speeding up your PC may sound quite appealing.
However, Microsoft’s PC Manager has already raised quite a few eyebrows when customers caught it recommending some questionable optimizing techniques, injecting affiliate links, and shamelessly claiming your PC needs repair if Bing is not set as the default search engine. Yikes.
This is the same kind of thing I’d expect when a once nice android app gets bought out by a company like tencent.
Bundle a battery manager and RAM optimizer bs in the file browser or something, fill it with ads, maybe they could have microtransactions for some of the “features”.Only possible with anti-libre software, never nice.
Yea, I’m still stuck on Windows at work for the foreseeable future as I don’t control that too much.
Otherwise, for personal stuff that I do control, they really can get fucked.My wife had never used any desktop OS other than Windows before, but I switched her to Pop!_OS and it’s gone fine. Certainly not any worse than between 2 Windows versions, but at least now there’s no bullshit and things are actually customizable. (Her words)
So does it disable telemetry, remove Edge, remove all the crap from the start menu, and stop presenting Web results in start menu search?
“reduce ads and pop-up interruptions,”
But not theirs, only others where they don’t get paid for it.
Oh so they’re just straight up including malware with windows now. Cool.
Windows is malware, anti-libre software.
Remove anti-libre software, Windows, to optimise infected devices.
Your PC is optimized after making the default search engine Bing and browser Internet Explorer
Lots of options besides Microsoft.
Something MS should’ve done decades ago. Why should the user have to clean up and optimize their PC? It only needs that because your OS is dirty and inefficient, so it should be on you to fix it.
Same argument for AVs being built-in. If it’s unsafe to use your OS on the internet that’s a failing on your part and you should see to it that doesn’t happen.
“Gammy you tool! You used this OS on the internet? You’re such a failure, get out of my face. It’s on you to fix it, and see that it doesn’t happen again.”
