This popped up on my work laptop yesterday. Very annoying.
“Easily”
There’s a reason I have my windows configured for do not disturb/focus mode, I can’t say I’ve seen a notification come through that was actually relevant for me. The vast majority of what I’ve seen come through notifications are app spam, and I ain’t got time for that
Agreed. Seems the notification tray in Windows is just a catch-all for spam (mostly from MS themselves)
Nah, browsers are so much worse, but that’s because most users blindly accept notifications from any sketch website then call and cry to IT because they “got a virus”.
I don’t miss my days supporting end users…
We configured an allowlist of domains allowed to send notifications through our GPOs, everything else is blocked to the end-users. It reduced the amount of calls related to “virus alert” for sure.
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I absolutely hate when Windows will give you a different notification for each email that comes in, then an additional one to tell you “mail has new messages.” Get out of my fucking way!
As far as I can tell outlook will call out the title of the first 3 emails in a minute, then if further emails arrive you get the general message.
Its really just a ‘we are rate limiting our notifications, check your inbox’ message.
I have to have adobe installed on my work computer and fuck it’s intrusive everythingness. Fuck em.
Nobody needs Adobe’s PDF Reader or Creative Tools anymore.
There are alternatives all over the web.
Update: I meant for personal use. I know that workplaces force us to use the same tools (and same versions of said tools) that they use.
PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can
eatread a dick.Firefox can open/edit PDFs too.
Damn, didin’t know about that! 😁👍
How do you edit a locked PDF? What is the alternative?
… Unless mandated by IT.
Right, or unless you work in an industry where photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere, or after effects are the standard. There’s plenty of great software out there, but good luck opening a complex photoshop document in anything but photoshop, or a complex premiere pro project in anything but premiere. It sucks to be chained to their products, but it’s naive to say “nobody needs them, just switch”
There’s also a compatibility issue between different people. If you don’t use Premiere, but everyone else does, sharing work is going to be a problem.
Sure, I don’t use it on my personal devices but I can’t install the better tools on my work computer.
its not just adobe. there are some good linux distors now.
I can hardly remember the last time any notification was not some kind of spam or self-notification.
I turn 99.95% of notifications off on any platform. The worst offenders are the apps that will show me a permanent in-app notification that I have turned off notification permissions… especially those that do so blocking the regular UI of the app to tell me this. Even some apps I’ve paid for do this. I condemn those to the deepest pits of app-hell.
Firefox can open and edit PDFs, just uninstall the Adobe junk.
Wait it can edit PDFs? Huh who knew! Thnx for the tip.
It is a relatively new feature
Not an issue when you don’t use Adobe.
Not an issue if you use an OS that values your freedom of choice
edit: typo
Not an issue if you use IS that values your freedom of choice
Did you mean “use an OS”?
If not, what does IS stand for?
yeah, typo ):
Happens to us all.
Also not an issue when you disable this in windows.
Also not an issue when you disable this in windows.
How do you like having to opt out of everything, repeatedly?
I wouldn’t know how that feels. Did it once and haven’t had an issue since.
I think some people here like to shit on windows just to shit on windows and haven’t actually used win11
Maybe I’ll get a better response to my question here, since you seem to view windows 11 positively and have a positive vote score, so others who are seeing these comments might feel the same.
Are there any reasons other than the sunsetting of win 10 or the relative newness of 11 to want to use Windows 11?
The only thing that stood out in the other thread where I asked this was support for multiple virtual desktops.
I mean might as well use the latest version. HDR improvements and the nicer UI are things I like about 11 over 10.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a good answer for you.
I built a new Pc last year and decided to put win11 on it to judge the OS for myself. In all reality, it doesn’t feel much different than win10. Boot up is fast, startup is fast, everything just works.
Sorry I can’t provide more info.
I’ve used Windows 11 a lot
I’ve made all the changes
Ultimately, switching to Linux is what it took to get rid of the garbage, and didn’t have to disable anything on the new system.
Can we not defend this bullshit, please? Or dismiss it as not that bad? It’s bad. Really bad. Stop pretending it’s okay because you can go through a dozen settings, half a dozen registry hacks, and a handful of third party programs to make the system work almost as well as it did a decade ago.
I fucking love windows 11. Especially compared to 10
I fucking do not love windows 10.
I wouldn’t know how that feels. Did it once and haven’t had an issue since.
I’m curious about what you think about what @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world has said about that.
If there is an option to turn it off, I haven’t found it. It certainly isn’t obvious.
Apparently that makes me a complete idiot according to the person you’re talking to.
I apologize for being too stupid to know every way to configure Windows 10, an OS I rarely use.
As far as I know, it doesn’t exist. But I’m more than willing to be proven wrong and have someone tell us exactly how it’s done.
Took 2 seconds to Google this. Don’t quite remember if this is the setting I flipped ages ago to disable it on both my home and work PCs but I don’t get this spam and did something that was essentially this simple to do to get it that way.
PEBKAC
PEBKAC
Sticking your head in that sand, I’m sure it’ll work out for you, eventually.
Not sure what point you are trying to make here.
I’m not having any computer problems.
Adobe is a cancer the second it is installed. Avoid this shitty company if possible, there’s loads of fantastic and better alternatives to their products these days.
It’s a work laptop. My personal stuff is running FOSS.
Is there an actual decent alternative that does digital signatures with CACs that doesn’t also require a costly subscription?
https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/signing-pdfs-with-cac-under-linux/
Does any of that work?
But also, we need an illegalist project to steal adobe’ssource code and release it to the world for free.
Fuck remote hackers, we need infiltrators.
I want someone to release the source code to ChatGPT, Sora, and everything else.
Thing is with those models, it’s not just the source code you’d need to do what they do. You’d also either need the model weights or to train them on a massive amount of data.
Oh, I forgot! RELEASE THE DATASETS!!!
Know anybody with a good tech résumé and better politics?
Don’t, um, tell me. But that’s the starting point. I’d say that or forgery, but those are most of the same skills you’d use to actually get the thing, so…
Have a recommendation for replacing Lightroom? Having a hard time finding an good alternative photo catalog mgmt solution.
Replying in the hope you get a solid answer to this. I need a good photo workflow tool and would like it to be FOSS.
Darktable!
Thank you! I’ll check it out.
Darktable (or the fork Ansel) or Rawtherapee and Digikam should get you where you need to be.
Not really my kind of thing, so I don’t. While adobe is a pile of shit, they do admittedly have some good software under all the extra shit piled on top and their suite is a lot larger than I remember these days!
use linux on daily basis, far better for your mental health. you can use virtual machine to work with these shitty softwares, or you can always dual-boot. make the switch!
OP mentions in the post details that this is a work laptop. Switching to Linux also isn’t as simple for most people. I’m fairly technically minded and I still took nearly a year to fully switch, and I decided a year ago that to just not have the headache of virtual machines and/or dual booting, I’m back daily driving Windows because my degree requires me to use stuff that only works on Windows.
For you it may have been a pretty quick switch because your circumstances would’ve almost certainly differed.
That’s why I think you’re being down voted. If we want to drive Linux adoption, this isn’t the way and never was.
didn’t read that it’s a work device, but beginner linux distros are easy to install, like windows. OP probably shouldn’t install another os on work device. making the switch is easy for the most people and you can use windows whenever you want besides it. linux adaptation has nothing to do with my comment. i don’t care about my downvotes, what os people use or linux user percentage, but they should be aware of their options if these things annoy them. if windows works for you, and these things don’t annoy you, you can happily use it.
making the switch is easy for the most people
That is nonsense. I am not an IT professional by any means, but I am savvy enough to make my way through an OS and I still had a hard time getting Mint to work the way I needed it to without looking up a bunch of tutorials and entering in a bunch of terminal commands, something that most people would find a huge challenge.
And that doesn’t even go into the problems I had installing it in the first place. And Mint is supposed to be the easiest one.
I like Linux, but suggesting it’s so easy anyone can use it is ridiculous. My 82-year-old mother would not be able to figure it out very easily, nor would my 13-year-old daughter. Could they figure it out? Potentially. But easy? Definitely not.
I don’t think you realize that the average computer user doesn’t know much beyond how to go to their favorite websites, write email, play a few games, etc. An OS with a learning curve is not something they would find easy.
i guess you’re right about the “average” user. i forgot the nanny.
integrating every aspect of the customization to os itself is tricky but i think distros in general already have pretty good customization settings natively. you can do themes, icons etc.
you should explain the word “customization” a bit more.
Customization = getting it to do what you want, which can be a pain in the ass even for basic functions. Here’s an example I had to deal with: hot corners in both Windows and MacOS let you turn off the display so you can do things like play a YouTube video at night to listen to as you fall asleep, but also not lock the screen or put the machine to sleep entirely. I had to look up how to make it do what is a simple thing to achieve in the other two big OSes.
There really should not be a learning curve for “if you put your cursor here, the display turns off.”
yeah, i get it, but it´s the same thing if you´re switching from windows to macos or the other way around. you loose searching capability [which is cmd + space] if you switch to windows, and you need a seperate app for window tiling in macos. lots of people agree that linux is the most customizable os in the market compared to macos and windows, they even have a seperate subreddit in reddit just for “ricing” which means customizing linux, you can look them in r/unixporn. btw, you have the option to run a command while using hot corners, it´s directly in the system settings. here´s a screenshot that i took just now.
I know you can run a command in hot corners. That was the problem. I had to look up the command I needed. That’s the sort of learning curve that is a barrier to many people.
Time to take away the notification permission of reader.
Or take away Adobe and use an alternative.
Not everyone has that option. I can only used approved software. Took 3 months to get WSL and Hyper-V approved for my desktop
You got Hyper-V approved on a work desktop? Man I wish I had that much luck.
Or put away Windows use an alternative.
This company is insufferable.
The war of the dark patterns is waging on…
Just throwing out there that PDF X-Change Editor and WondersShare PDFelement are both exceptional PDF editors. PDF X-Change Editor also has Windows ARM64 builds so you can run them on ARM based PCs. Although the best thing is to try and escape from Windows entirely anymore. Edit: Also, I second other recommends for Sumatra PDF for viewing. It has always been a favorite.
Okular is what I use everywhere. It’s free and open source and a very nice application for pdf
Oooh, forgot about that one, good callout.
SumatraPDF
Adobe … spam … Windows
That sounds about right.
