If readers recall, earlier this year in mid-March, Microsoft stopped automatically installing its Microsoft 365 Copilot App on Windows 11 by default. Instead, the company decided to leave this option to users, which makes sense considering it is their operating system. However, Microsoft is now reve...
Installing Mint did the trick for me!
These "install linux’ solutions started but the more time passes the more viable they are.
(since the Linux distros improved even more and Microsoft did a lot to worsen windows)
I would but it’s a work computer and it’s out of my hands. I’ve already tried running mint on one of them and about 70% of the software we use doesn’t even remotely work.
You can also try using flyoobe.
It’s just a script that runs scripts to remove annoyances from windows, and a lot of the things it does can be done without local admin
*don’t put Mint on your work issued machine (unless they said its cool)
Someone I worked with did that and got away with it somehow. He would get an occasional nag but mostly they just let him do it. Wish I had those cajones.
Good advice.
I actually did put Mint on my work computer - but I have a great deal of leverage (hard to replace), and my boss likes me, and the Windows 10 to 11 uograde had failed several times, and all we we being measured on was getting off of Windows 10.
I’ve been running Mint for work since just before the Windows 10 end of life last year, and it has been lovely.
Ask me anything, of course.
But obviously, most folks should never do this without some kind of blessing from their employer.