• Ejh3k@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    So what are the hidden features? The article doesn’t say and I scrolled through all the comments and nothing popped out at me other than a bunch of comments of people bashing windows and sucking their own dicks over Linux?

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      1 year ago

      The hidden features are flags that Microsoft enables or disables for random users as part of A/B testing. The article contains a link to the various flags that can be enabled depending on your edition and version of Windows.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Afaik it’s a tool to interact with an API to override A/B testing in an official way.
      Apparantly some tool already exists that does it. Just not the official way.

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      1 year ago

      sucking their own dicks over Linux

      This one trick explains why people who use Linux love it so much!

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    1 year ago

    We getting to the point where some Linux distros are objectively better systems… all around. Having way less issues with PopOS than I did with Win11

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      Yup, just moved to Mint on my laptop since I’ve been getting some issues with Windows draining the battery quick despite it being in “good health” according to Dell, and just general performance hiccups across Windows.

      Super low CPU and RAM usage, snappier performance for word processing and surfing, and a longer battery life? With no tracking features to boot? All for free? Hell yeah I’ll move over to Linux lol.