Off topic, why does clicking keep windows 10 trigger the admin pop up? What does it need permission to do? It ain't for removing the ad because I still get it most boots
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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Because it wants administrative privileges to reverse the changes it already made to your PC
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My machine can't handle that upgrade and I've not gotten any popups, thankfully.
Every time I see people complain about this while I'm running PopOS https://media.npr.org/news/images/2008/dec/12/sip_200-8cd52659abd57bb28c4d7bd3797c582d77527643-s6-c30.jpg
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Hope they push so hard to a point that finally most of users adopt Linux and developers focus more in Linux
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So this was the exact thing that pushed me over to the FOSS side the last time they did it. Nice to see the tradition of annoying users to the point of them abandoning Microsoft is alive and well.
I wish they'd stop defaulting to the goddamn boot drive for updates.. I don't have the space
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Trust bust tech
I got the full-screen splash screen depicted on the second screenshot a couple of weeks ago, I screamed "No!" thinking Microsoft upgraded me to W11 without my consent. My partner thought my computer was broken 😂