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You can uninstall it with
winget uninstall cortana, never gave me any issues, works like a charm. Removing edge will break some stuff though, you need some edge render thingie for certain programs like Weather.Then remove weather
I remember, back in the windows 10 days if you uninstall Cortana, Windows search (start menu search) just breaks
But I guess it makes sense now that this works because Microsoft itself is ditching Cortana for Bing AI
Oh shiny new thing!
Well it’s just that Bing AI is what Cortana was supposed to be, but couldn’t have been.
Makes sense they’d ditch it and integrate an LLM model instead.
No one is going to use weather on a PC, that’s what a phone is for
Why would I pick up my phone to check the weather when I’m on my PC already?
I mean is it so much work to lift your phone up tho
It’s unnecessary work considering I have weather app/website on my PC. I don’t see why I’d bother
Yeah the web browser weather is even better because it doesn’t actually take up any space on the computer too. Good point
When you live in a place like Boston, you really need that app
Edge WebView, which can be installed separately. A few third-party apps depend on it.
I removed edge from my system , works fine for me !
Linux is an option.
Linux
is an optionis the answer.What you’re referring to as the answer, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
All hail Stallman
only if the question is “What can make me so angry as to throw my computer out the window”.
lol
Computers are hard
Hell yeah. I changed my main OS to Linux mint. First time on Linux, and I love it so far.
I only use Windows for stuff that Linux cant run yet.What specifically do you still need Windows for? It’s possible that you can get it all running under Proton.
Me: Hey linux, uninstall GCC
Linux: are you sure?
ME: sudo do it
Linux: ok
Me: hey linux, update packages
Linux: error
Me: linux reinstall GCC
Linux: error
A short adventure with a valuable lesson learned by myself.
Me: Linux, can you uninstall the bootloader and kernel?
Linux: sure thing
A lot of linux desktop environments will break as well if you remove some seemingly useless package
$sudo apt remove kwrite
The following packages with also be REMOVED: kde-plasma-desktop, [all the other KDE desktop packages]
Shut the fuck up man literally every single post about any other operating system is “SWITCH TO LINUX, YOU WON’T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH LINUX!!! LOOK HOW MUCH BETTER LINUX IS!!! LINUXXXXXXXX!!!”
All it does is give all the circle jerkers a reason to spam comments and not listen to anybody else’s opinions besides their own and it does absolutely nothing helpful for the post
I guessing this is a just a bad copy pasta
No
maybe bc linux is better?
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Doesn’t uninstalling edge end with a broken taskbar? Or am I remembering wrongly
Sounds about right, the start bar is tied in to Bing search. Uninstalling IE would cause all sorts of issues back in the day.
You’re remembering wrongly.
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Edgecore sounds like a really exciting but actually bland genre of music.
Sounds like it would be all build-up and never a drop
Edge is completely safe to remove in my testing, at least if removed through the Chris Titus Utility.
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So his Meme is correct the system will break if you force it to uninstall something?
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At some point this holds true for any and all environments.
Most things are probably fine, though Windows updates might do something funky or just put it back from where you threw out that trash.
But Edge is a different story. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to make Edge, their web browser, essential for Windows Explorer, their file manager and desktop among other things, to function properly.
So if you get rid of Edge, things can get kinda fucky. I haven’t looked into if someone has made a workaround, I know that there are modified “debloated” Windows installs that do some heavy duty mucking about in there, but I don’t know if anyone’s figure out how to give Edge the ax without making your desktop freak out.
You just need to install Edge WebView separately.
That was definitely by design. I’m surprised they haven’t done that with more of their other bloatware tbh.
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Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy, BUT ONLY if the first thing you do in a new PC with Windows, to spend an afternoon disabling and throwing out a ton of junk, trials, unnecessary services and functions and most of the telemetry. So if you have a fast and compliant OS. Luckily Windows allows all this, but naturally it requires an advanced user (registry and servicelists can be a comanche territory if you don’t exacly know what you do) and M$ does not offer much documentation and help on this topic either, of course. But in the new online subscription version they will naturally nip these possibilities in the bud.
What trials?
Only thing I had to remove was Skype and there are tools that let you do whatever you want in a matter of minutes.
Yes, there are some tools which can help, eg https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer, also Windows itself has the GodMode, but it need somewhat more than this and only remove Skype, MS Store and Cortana.
I don’t use Windows, but doesn’t the LTSC and/or Enterprise edition come with better defaults?
Yeah, LTSC is basically how Windows should be, with less bloatware and security updates only.
Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy
What the hell dimension did I walk into?!?
Read also the rest what is necessary to make Windows private and stable. Nothing new that Windows by default is a privacy nightmare, but you can change it, but how to do this is not in the Windows Helpfile.
If my OS installs broken by default. I’m just going to use something that’s not broken. Simple as that.
Maybe I’m just really fast but it takes me about 10 minutes. About the same amount of time I spend installing and customing a fresh Linux install.
Uninstalling Internet Explorer breaks windows 10
Same with ubuntu and snaps
Ubuntu became horrible. Good for the people that enjoy it, tho. Not all users care about the same things. I left the Canonicalverse and landed on Debian. Happy as a clam.
I did nothing and my (Linux) system broke! Beat that Windows! Thank god for Snapper.
Just gotta run a quick apt update… And everything broke.
Mostly looking at Docker, though. The Compose Plugin has been broken since v2.19. Domain resolution is fucked and it refuses to restart services if they depend on another service.
Sounds like
pacman -Syyu
In one of the recent insider builds they enable the ability to uninstall it from the usual add/remove programs, as they’re ending support for it.
User: “Hey Linux, I want to remove the / directory.”
Linux: “Go ahead, just remember to use sudo.”
Need -no-preserve-root :(. They made Linux way too child friendly imo. It messes with my workflow. Now my old scripts don’t work anymore T_T
just do
sudo rm -rf /*and it works without
i can’t open .webp files anymore because edge doesn’t exist anymore, and i’m too lazy to change the “default opener program™”.
My biggest issue with windows is it not telling you the exact reason for some weird behavior, and then making it intentionally difficult to go in and modify/fix it yourself.
Linux might break more often, but when it does I’ve ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it far far easier than I ever could on a windows machine, partially due to the actually helpful error messages.
Linux might break more often, but when it does I’ve ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it
Yep. On Windows the mantra is always “Just reinstall”.
“Bad elf magic” isn’t a particularly helpful error message. (It means a shared library couldn’t be loaded because it’s corrupt, for a different kind of machine, built for a very different dynamic linker, or something along those lines.)
If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system. But naturally you must spend an afternoon afterwards to restore your original settings, throw out all the garbage and reinstall all your applications and files.
If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system.
Only if there’s enough of the operating system left to successfully boot and restore itself. If not, good luck.
I can resuscitate a broken Debian setup by booting a USB installer and reinstalling all of the packages on it, assuming the dpkg database
/var/lib/dpkg/statusis still intact. I can also back up the entire system, apps and all, and later restore everything; there are no hidden secret invisible file shenanigans like on Windows.
Once, 2ish years ago I think by now? I was trying to clean up all the shit I installed to compile something because it wasnt available on apt, had a repository, or had a .deb (I was on ubuntu at the time).
I mistyped something and ended up removing Python. Got no warning, no red text, no nothing. It just uninstalled it as if it was nothing.
I rebooted, and learned that a lot of fucking shit depends on python. because I no longer had a DE and could only boot into a terminal. after 2 hours of trying to unfuck it, I just used a live cd to save what files I could and reinstalled.
Oh, and I never got the program compiled and working. and never tried again on the fresh install. I dont even remember what it was now. Something for gaming, probably.
Android is Windows’ twin sibling.
